GARHI KHUDA BUX: Former first lady Begum Nursat Bhutto was laid to
rest in her family mausoleum at Garhi Khuda Bux in Larkana on Monday.
Thousands of people attended her funerals, held in Naudero, some 10 kilometers from Garhi Khuda Bux.
President
Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, PPP
Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, federal ministers, parliamentarians
and many others attended the funeral of Begum Nusrat Bhutto.
Begum
Nusrat Bhutto, 82, the widow of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto and the mother of Benazir Bhutto, died in Dubai on Sunday after a
protracted illness. Her dead body was brought to Sukkkur from a
chartered plane.
President Zardari, Bilawal Zardari, Asifa Bhutto and Bakhtawar accompanied her body from Dubai to Pakistan.
A
10-day period of national mourning has been declared by the government
of Pakistan on Sunday. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani had
announced a public holiday on Monday to mourn the death of Begum Bhutto.
Begum Nusrat Bhutto’s body received a guard of honour at the
Sukkur airport and earlier on Monday the acting President approved
conferment of Nishan-e-Imtiaz award on the former first lady Begum
Nusrat Bhutto.
In a statement, former two-time Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif also extended his condolences to Bhutto family at the
demise of Begum Nusrat Bhutto. Online
