HYDERABAD, Jan 1: Mother of Syed Nisar Hussain Shah, Sajjada Nasheen of Dargah Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, died here on Thursday after suffering a heart attack. She was 80.

She was a heart patient and was admitted on Wednesday to Red Crescent’s hospital Latifabad.

She was laid to rest in the women’s graveyard in the precincts of the Dargha. A majlis will be held on Saturday at her residence, according to her son Syed Mahzar Ali Shah alias Nazan Saeen.

Her funeral was attended by Federal Education Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Jam Madad Ali, zonal in-charge Hyderabad MQM Sharif Khan and party’ parliamentarians.

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