{"id":42171,"date":"2018-09-15T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T11:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42171"},"modified":"2018-09-15T11:08:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T11:08:47","slug":"kulsoom-sharif-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-attend-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kulsoom-sharif-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-attend-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulsoom Sharif laid to rest as thousands attend funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore<br \/>\nAmid chants of \u201cmother of democracy\u201d, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of Pakistan\u2019s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was laid to rest on Friday as thousands of PML-N supporters and top politicians attended her funeral prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Kulsoom, who died Tuesday in a London hospital after a year-long battle with throat cancer, was laid to rest at the Sharif family\u2019s Jati Umra residence here next to the graves of her father-in-law Mian Sharif and brother-in-law Abbas Sharif.<br \/>\nHer funeral prayers, led by renowned cleric Tariq Jameel, were offered at a ground at Lahore\u2019s Sharif Medical City, after which her body was transported to Jati Umra amid high security.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz Sharif and other Sharif family members excluding 68-year-old Kulsoom\u2019s two sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz attended the prayers. Hassan and Hussain have been declared absconders by an accountability court in corruption cases linked to Panama Papers scandal.<\/p>\n<p>A protective human chain was formed around Sharif so that the funeral prayers could be offered. A massive crowd of thousands of people, top politicians, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders and workers attended the funeral prayers.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf including Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar and National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser attended the funeral prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore Amid chants of \u201cmother of democracy\u201d, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of Pakistan\u2019s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was laid to rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42173,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42171\/revisions\/42173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}