Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was laid to rest on Friday (14) at the Sharif family's Jati Umra residence.
Thousands, including top politicians and PML-N supporters, attended her funeral prayers. The funeral prayers were attended by Nawaz Sharif and other Sharif family members, excluding Kulsoom's two sons - Hassan and Hussain Nawaz. They have been declared absconders by an accountability court in corruption cases.
The PMLN workers were chanting "mother of democracy" when her casket was brought for the funeral prayers, reported Press Trust of India (PTI).
Kulsoom died Tuesday (11) in a London hospital after a year-long battle with throat cancer.
Her body was brought to Pakistan from London on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on Friday (14) morning.
Shehbaz Sharif, Kulsoom's brother-in-law and president of PMLN, along with Kulsoom's daughter Asma, grandson Zayd Hussain Sharif (Hussain Nawaz's son), and 11 other family members had accompanied the body from London to Lahore.
Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Capt (retd) M Safdar, currently serving jail terms in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi after being convicted by an accountability court in a corruption case in July, were released on parole for Kulsoom's funeral.
