Pakistan
Pakistan: Funeral of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan chief Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi attracts huge turnout
Islamabad: A large number of people attended the funeral prayer of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi.
He died on Thursday.
His funeral prayers was held at Lahore's Minar-i-Pakistan on Saturday afternoon.
Thousands of people gathered at the site to attend the funeral prayers with many complaining of mobile signal outages. The prayers were led by Rizvi's son, Saad Hussain Rizvi, who has been named the new TLP chief, according to TLP spokesman Salman Haider, Dawn News reported.
Rizvi was later laid to rest in the courtyard of Madressah Rehmatul Lil Alamin, the seminary associated with the mosque where he was a prayer leader, near Chowk Yateem Khana on Multan Road, reports the Pakistani newspaper.
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