[Dawn] MUZAFFARABAD / RAW... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
ÂALPINDI: British national Usman Khan was laid to rest in his family’s ancestral village in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it
Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(AJK) on Friday.
The body of the 28-year-old London Bridge attacker was brought by his family from Islamabad airport to Kijlani village in district Kotli where the funeral took place at 4pm, following which he was buried in a local graveyard.
His family members refused to speak to the media, saying they had already given their statement through the London police on Tuesday.
Talking to Dawn, PIA’s General Manager Public Relations Abdul Hafeez said that Usman Khan’s body was shifted to Islamabad from London aboard a PIA flight PK-792. Later, it was handed over to his family.
The official said it was the PIA’s policy that it carried bodies on the basis of genuine documentation, including foreign-origin card of the dear departed and Pakistain High ComÂmission’s letter.
The body was handed over to his relatives after passing through immigration and customs process.
The relatives drove the body to the town of Kotli for burial as Khan’s family didn’t want to bury him in the UK. His funeral prayers were earlier offered in a Birmingham mosque.
Khan stabbed two people to death and left three others injured in an attack in London on Friday. He had been residing in the Staffordshire area of UK.
According to media reports, he was part of a gang of nine turbans, mostly of Bangladeshi origin, who were sentenced in February 2012 after being convicted. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
he was released in December 2018, but was required to wear a GPS (electronic tag).
After the London Bridge attack, Khan was rubbed out by security personnel.
The Foreign Office front man was asked whether any special permission was required from the government for bringing the bodies of foreign nationals to Pakistain for burial or it was allowed for the people of Pakistain origin, and if any permission was granted in the case of the London Bridge attacker.
He replied through WhatsApp: "Is his body in Pakistain? I have no confirmation of this."
| An earlier Dawn article added this tidbit about the dead guy: |
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