Funeral prayers of legendary comedian Umer Sharif offered in Karachi

Hundreds of fans, political and social leaders gathered to bid farewell to the king of comedy

Veteran comedian Umer Sharif's body reached Karachi about a week after he passed away in Germany. PHOTO: EXPRESS

KARACHI:

Funeral prayers of legendary comedian Umer Sharif were offered on Wednesday, hours after his body reached Karachi from Germany.

The prayers were led by Allama Bashir Farooqi and were attended by a large number of people, including political and social leaders, as well as people from the entertainment industry.

He will be buried in the cemetery adjacent to the shrine of Hazrat Abdullah Shah Ghazi.

According to reports, the funeral prayers were supposed to be offered at 3pm, however, they got delayed as throngs of people kept making their way to attend the veteran comedian's last rites.

According to SSP South, special security arrangements had been made for the occasion. More than 200 police personnel were deployed on security duty.

"Security was also beefed up on the route from Umer Sharif Park, Clifton to Abdullah Shah Ghazi's shrine. Funeral prayers were held at the park where a bomb disposal squad was also deployed," the SSP said.

Earlier today, Sharif's body was handed over to his family after it reached Karachi from Germany via Turkish Airlines flight TK708.

Sharif's wife, Zarin Ghazal, and Pakistani Consul General Amjad Ali accompanied the body to Karachi. The deceased comedian's friends and family members received the body at the airport after completion of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)'s ground handling processes.

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Sindh Minister for Information and Labour Senator Saeed Ghani also reached the cargo terminal and expressed his condolences to Sharif's family.

Emotional scenes were witnessed at the cargo terminal as Sharif's son, Jawad Umer, and other friends overcame with emotion.

Legendary comedian Umer Sharif buried at Abdullah Shah Ghazi graveyard

The comedy king’s funeral prayers were held at a park in Karachi's Clifton area on Wednesday

People carrying the mortal remains of legendary Pakistani comedian Umer Sharif in Karachi, on October 6, 2021. — Twitter

KARACHI: Legendary Pakistani comedian Umer Sharif has been buried at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi graveyard on Wednesday afternoon.

Prior to the burial, hundreds of people attended the comedian's funeral prayers at a park in Karachi's Clifton areas.

SSP South confirmed to Geo News that over 200 police officers, under the supervision of two DSPs, had been stationed at the funeral for security.

He said police had installed a walk-through gate at the entrance to the Umer Sharif Park in Clifton Block II. The ground outside the main gate of the park had been designated as the parking area for the funeral prayers while traffic police officials had been deployed outside the park to ensure uninterrupted flow of traffic.

A bomb disposal squad had also searched the park prior to the funeral prayers.

Earlier, Umer's body had been shifted to his home in Karachi from the mortuary Wednesday morning for his last rites.

Turkish Airlines flight TK-708, carrying the corpse of the “comedy king”, took off from Istanbul at 12:53 am and landed at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi at around 5:33 am today morning.

Umer Sharif's wife Zareen Ghazal also arrived back in Pakistan on board the same plane. His sons and other relatives received his body at the airport. Among others, Pakistan Peoples Party leader, Saeed Ghani and MQM's Kishwar Zahra also arrived at the airport's cargo terminal.

The deceased comedian's body was flown to Munich from Nuremberg, Germany, before being flown to Istanbul aboard Turkish Air flight TK-1634.

The PPP leader paid tribute to the comic genius. "I call upon the people to attend Umer Sharif's funeral in a large number as a message to the entire world that Pakistanis remember their legends even after they had passed away," Ghani said while talking to media

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