Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Mufti Abdul Shakoor Sunday buried after offering the funeral prayer offered in Lakki Marwat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
In the funeral prayer, Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) including Mohsin Dawar, Maulana Muhammad Anwar and Muhammad Khan Sherani participated.
A number of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal group (JUI-F) workers and local leaders along with the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Bannu Division also joined the Namaz-e-Janaza of Mufti Abdul Shakoor.
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Mufti Abdul Shakoor passed away in a road accident in Islamabad yesterday.
The incident occurred around iftar (Saturday evening) when the minister was headed towards Secretariat Chowk from a local hotel.
The capital's police said the minister was driving the car himself when a Toyota Hilux Revo — with five people onboard — smashed his vehicle at the driver's side. The federal minister was shifted to Polyclinic Hospital in the federal capital, but due to severe internal bleeding, he succumbed to his wounds, the police said.