KARACHI: Shaikh Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, the late Governor of Sind, was buried with full military honours at 10-30 a.m. on Tuesday [Oct 5] at the Idgah Maidan, Karachi. ... More than 100,000 people attended the Janaza prayers held in front of the Idgah Maidan on Bunder Road. Maulana Ihtishamul Haque Thanvi led the prayers.

Khwaja Nazimuddin, the Governor-General of Pakistan, was a prominent mourner.

The funeral procession with the Sind Police in the vanguard started from the Sind Governor`s House... . Detachments of the Royal Pakistan Navy, the Army and the Royal Pakistan Air Force followed the Police. Immediately behind the servicemen was the bier placed on a gun carriage.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Mr Ghulam Mohammad, Khawaja Shahabuddin, Mr Fazlur Rahman, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, Mr Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Pakistan`s Ambassador to Iran, Khan Iftikhar Hussain Khan, Premier of West Punjab, the Ministers Plenipotentiary of Iraq, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia, the Charge d`Affaires of Egypt and Syria and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Perry Keene followed the gun carriage. Staf f correspondentKARACHI: Shaikh Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah, the late Governor of Sind, was buried with full military honours at 10-30 a.m. on Tuesday [Oct 5] at the Idgah Maidan, Karachi. ... More than 100,000 people attended the Janaza prayers held in front of the Idgah Maidan on Bunder Road. Maulana Ihtishamul Haque Thanvi led the prayers.

Khwaja Nazimuddin, the Governor-General of Pakistan, was a prominent mourner.

The funeral procession with the Sind Police in the vanguard started from the Sind Governor`s House... . Detachments of the Royal Pakistan Navy, the Army and the Royal Pakistan Air Force followed the Police. Immediately behind the servicemen was the bier placed on a gun carriage.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, Mr Ghulam Mohammad, Khawaja Shahabuddin, Mr Fazlur Rahman, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, Mr Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Pakistan`s Ambassador to Iran, Khan Iftikhar Hussain Khan, Premier of West Punjab, the Ministers Plenipotentiary of Iraq, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia, the Charge d`Affaires of Egypt and Syria and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Perry Keene followed the gun carriage. Staf f correspondent