Begum Bhutto laid to rest

Funeral prayers of Begum Nusrat Bhutto were offered at President House here on Monday. Mufti Abdul Raheem Kandhar led the prayers. Later, Begum Nusrat Bhutto was laid to rest beside her husband, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at the family graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. President Asif Ali Zardari, Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party
(PPP) Bilawal Bhutto, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, federal ministers Khurshid Shah, A Rehman Malik and Naveed Qamar, PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, Babar Awan, PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badar, Zamarad Khan, NA Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Pervaiz Ashraf, Sultan Mehmood, Farahatullah Babar, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Manzoor Wassan, Sharjeel Inam Memon, Imtiaz Safdar Waraich, Ghous Ali Shah and Zafar Iqbal Jhagra also attended the funeral and burial.
Hundreds of PPP workers and leaders , besides prominent persons from all walks of life, also offered funeral prayers. Leaders of MQM including Farooq Sattar were also present. Strict security measures were taken on the occasion with deployment of heavy contingents of police and rangers.
The body of late Nusrat Bhutto was earlier brought by a special plane to Sukkur airport from Dubai, from where a helicopter shifted the body to Naudero. Highest civil award Nishan-e-Imtiaz had been conferred on late Begum Nusrat Bhutto for her "courage, innumerable sacrifices and suffering" for upholding the cause of democracy.