Zaheeruddin Ali Khan, philanthropist Managing Editor of Siasat Daily was laid to rest in Aakhirat Manzil early on Tuesday. Mr. Khan passed away on Monday, after a heart attack at balladeer Gaddar’s funeral.
It was before the crack of dawn that hundreds of people converged at the expansive courtyard of the Shahi Masjid in Public Gardens where Mr Khan’s body was brought from his home in Lakdikapul. The namaz-e-janaaza (funeral prayers) were performed soon after Fajr namaz.
From the Shahi Masjid, the funeral procession comprising family, friends and well-wishers, reached Aakhirat Manzil, an ancestral graveyard on Darusslaam Road, where Mr Khan was buried near the final resting place of Abid Ali Khan, a towering figure of Urdu journalism who founded the Siasat Daily in August 15, 1949.
