The body of senior journalist Syed Ansar Naqvi, Senior Director for Current Affairs and Programming at 24NewsHD, was identified through a DNA test on Friday. His funeral prayers will be offered in Karachi after Asr prayers on Saturday (today).

Naqvi died in a plane crash in Karachi on May 22. He was going to his native city, Hyderabad, to spend Eid holidays with his family. His wife, Begum Rana, was present at the airport to receive him when she received the news about the plane crash. He had initially decided to travel to Hyderabad by road as his seat hadn’t been confirmed but later boarded the plane after confirmation of seat at the eleventh hour.