Pir Zainuddin passes away

Published August 23, 2006

QUETTA, Aug 22: Prominent spiritual figure, Syed Pir Zainuddin Al-Gailani died in Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon. He will be laid to rest in Quetta on Thursday.

Family sources here said Pir Zainuddin had been under treatment in an Islamabad hospital for two weeks. His body will be brought to Quetta by a PIA flight on Thursday and will be buried in the Bibi Ziarat graveyard.—Correspondent

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