MANSEHRA, July 21: A young cadet of the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul, Shujah Omar Awan, who had received a fatal head injury in an accident, expired in a military hospital in Rawalpindi on Saturday night. He was laid to rest with full military honours in his ancestral graveyard here on Sunday.

Shujah, 23, was a gold medalist in taekwondo.

High-ranking civil and military officials and hundreds of people from all walks of life attended his Namaz-i-Janaza.

Floral wreaths on behalf of President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Commander 10-Corps Lt-Gen Syed Arif Hassan and the Commandant of PMA Kakul Maj-Gen Hamid Rabnawaz were placed on the grave of the late cadet.