SAHIWAL: Hundreds of villagers and family members attended the funeral prayers of the policeman, who was martyred in Friday’s suicide blast in Islamabad, in his ancestral village of Chak Shafi in Arifwala tehsil on Saturday noon.

However, no police high-up or official from Arifwala or the Pakpattan district police chief’s office, or local politicians from Arifwala and Pakpattan, were present.

The body of head constable Syed Adeel Hussnain reached his village on Friday night after his funeral prayers were offered in Islamabad in the afternoon.

He was buried in his ancestral village here with full honours and a police band from Islamabad presented a guard of honour.

Hundreds of villagers and immediate family members attended the burial ceremony. Hussnain’s elder brother told Dawn over the phone that his sibling had been serving in the Islamabad police for 18 years. He lived with his wife and three children.

Hussnain had visited his village just three days ago to take his family back to Islamabad.

His brother told the media he was honoured to have such a brother who sacrificed his life for the country.

The Islamabad police also paid tribute to martyr Adeel Hussnain from their official Twitter account.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2022