Sayeed detected with sepsis, decreased blood counts and pneumonia, was admitted to the hospital with complains of neck pain and fever.
Sayeed was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Anantnag. (Photo: PTI)- DP workers had assembled from the length and breadth of the Kashmir Valley to pay their last respect to the two-time Chief Minister.
- Close relatives and senior PDP leaders were among those who had a final glimpse of Sayeed's body before it was given a customary ablution as per Islamic rites necessary before burial.
- 3/19 Sayeed's coffin, draped in the National Tricolour and red-and-white flag of J&K, was later taken from his official residence to the ancestral graveyard in Anantnag.
- The mortal remains of Sayeed reached his official residence on Gupkar Road in Srinagar amidst sloganeering by supporters and workers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he founded in 1999.
- 1/19 Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who died at a hospital in Delhi on Thursday, was laid to rest with full state honours in his ancestral graveyard of Bijbehara town in Anantnag district.
- ammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away in New Delhi on Thursday morning. 79-year-old Sayeed, detected with sepsis, decreased blood counts and pneumonia, was admitted to the hospital on December 24, with complains of neck pain and fever.
- Former chief ministers of the state, Omar Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad were among those who attended the funeral prayers which were led by Sayeed's trusted aide, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar.
- The 'Namaaz-e-Janazah' (funeral prayers) of the departed leader was offered in the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium at Sonawar here, in which thousands of the mourners took part.
- The coffin, in a decked up police vehicle, was later taken in the form of a procession of vehicles to the ancestral town of Bijbehara of the PDP founder.
- Sayeed was given full state honours after the funeral prayers, a 21-gun salute and a police band played the ceremonial Last Post for the deceased Chief Minister.
Sayeed was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Anantnag. (Photo: PTI)
Sayeed detected with sepsis, decreased blood counts and pneumonia, was admitted to the hospital with complains of neck pain and fever.
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