DADU: Bodies of army soldiers Khadim Hussain Abro and Abdul Razzaq Chana, who died in a targeted attack in Karachi a day earlier, were brought to their native villages on Wednesday and laid to rest with full military honours.

Khadim Hussain’s body was brought by a team of Army officers — Col Naimat, Major Khurram and second lieutenant Abdul Wahhab — to his native town Chutto Abro, 40 kilometres from Dadu.

Besides army officers, relatives and friends, hundreds people including social and political activists participated in the soldier’s funeral prayer and burial in his ancestral graveyard, Pir Allah Rakhio.

Abro had joined the army about nine years ago. He had married two years before and had no children while his parents died 10 years ago. He had four brothers.

At the funeral, Abro’s father-in-law appealed to Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to eliminate terrorists from the country and launch a military operation in Karachi and the rest of Sindh.

Lance Nike Abdul Razzaq Chana was also laid to rest with full military honours in native Muhammad Osman Chana village near Tharoshah, about 15 km from Naushahro Feroze, on Wednesday.

Brig. Shahid Osman, SSP Altaf Laghari and a large number of villagers and journalists offered funeral prayers for the martyred soldier.

He has left a daughter and a wife to mourn his death.

Published in Dawn, July 28th, 2016