LAHORE, Nov 1: Tight security arrangements were made on Monday for the burial of Mian Muhammad Sharif, the father of former premier Nawaz Sharif.

"It was a sensitive event and we handled it carefully. Thanks God it all ended peacefully," Lahore Operations police chief Aftab Cheema said, who claimed that nevertheless the PML-N was allowed to offer funeral prayers in absentia at the shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj Bukhsh. However, he added the activists had been warned of due action in case of any violation.

All routes leading to the Lahore airport and the Raiwind Estates of the Sharifs had been manned with police commandos besides deployment of officials from intelligence agencies.

Vehicles suspected of having any link with the PML-N were intercepted at the entry points of the city, and the police denied them attend the funeral. However, Lahore security police head SP Raja Riffat Mukhtar denied it. "We didn't do any such practice."

All roads and streets around the shrine had been manned with police commandos and plainclothes men besides deployment of riot police. Likewise, deployments had been made on The Mall and Model Town houses of the Sharifs.

QUL: Qul of Mian Muhammad Sharif, the father of Mian Nawaz Sharif and Mian Shahbaz Sharif, will be held at 186-H, Model Town, at 3:30pm on Tuesday (today).