LAHORE, Feb 21: The bodies of Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and his wife were brought here from Rawalpindi on Friday by a C-130 plane.

A guard of honour was presented as the bodies were taken out from the plane at the PAF airbase.

Acting Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Syed Qaiser Hussain, Lahore Corps Commander Lt-Gen Zarrar Azim, Air Marshal Arshad Toor, Air Vice-Marshal Shahid Nisar, Punjab Rangers Director- General Maj-Gen Hussain Mehdi, senior military and air force officers, and family members of Mushaf Ali Mir were present on the occasion.

His son and daughter had accompanied the bodies from Rawalpindi to Lahore.

Air Chief Marshal Mir’s other son, Nabeel Ali Mir, has also reached Lahore from the US.

The bodies were taken to the Combined Military Hospital with full military honours and will be kept there for the night.

On Saturday morning, the bodies will be shifted to the Rangers House where the late air chief’s brother-in-law, Gen Hussain Mehdi, lives and then to the Gulberg residence of his (Mir’s) brother.

Funeral prayers will be offered at the Tufail Road PAF Stadium at 11am. Bodies of the chief of the air staff and his wife will be buried in Mominpura Graveyard, McLeod Road, at 11.45am.

Qul will be held at the Rangers House at 3pm on Sunday. A large number of people from all walks of life condoled the death of the air chief and his wife at the residence of his brother and Maj-Gen Hussain Mehdi.