KARACHI: Shafiq Paracha grieved

Published December 17, 2003

KARACHI, Dec 16: Qudratullah Paracha, father of project director of the Lyari Expressway Resettlement Scheme Shafiqur Rahman Paracha, died in a local hospital on Tuesday morning after a protracted illness. He was buried in the Paposhnagar graveyard in the afternoon. He leaves behind four daughters and four sons.

Quran Khwani will be held on Thursday between Asr and Maghrib prayers at Masjid Al-Noor, Block-F, and for ladies at his residence E-112, Block-F, North Nazimabad.

Eightyfive-year-old Qudratullah Paracha was a qualified Tabib from Delhi and had been a class-fellow of the late Hakim Mohammed Said. — APP

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