Altaf Hamid Rao.
AJK law maker Sagheer Chughtai laid to rest in Rawalakot,
Thousands including AJK President Masood, KA minister Ali Amin Gandapur, others offer funeral prayer,
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : Illustrious AJK politician Sardar Sagheer Ahmed Khan Chughtai was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at native village Bengoyeen in Rawalakot district on Monday amidst tears of thousands of the mourners belonging to all spheres of life from across Azad Jammu & Kashmir besides various parts of the country.
Earlier, thousands of people from all walks of life from AJK and rest of the country offered the funeral prayer at Sardar Muhammad Ashraf Khan Stadium in Rawalakot city at 4.00 pm the same day with full honor.
Prominent among others who attended the funeral prayer including Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan, federal Kashmir Affairs minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister and PTI AJK Stalwart Sardar Tanveer Ahmed Illayas, former AJK Prime Minister and PTI AJK President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, former AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, Sultan Zamurd, PTI AJK Central Information Secretary Ershad Mahmood, Ex President Jammu Kashmir Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry and CPDR President Zulfiqar Abbasi besides other top leaders and workers of various other social, political and religious and public representative parties, elected representative, lawyers, journalists and employees of various private and public sector functionaries.
The body was later shifted to Village Bengoieen located 15 kilometer away of Rawalakot city on Muzaffarabad-Rawalakot Road for burial.
The ill-fated AJK Legislative Assembly Member who lost his life in a road accident skidding into Jhelum river near Azad Pattan 12 days ago and whose body was recovered from Mangla dam here on Saturday.
As reported earlier, the bodies of Sardar Sagheer Chughtai, who was also the nominee of PTI in scheduled July 25 AJK general elections from a Rawalakot district constituency, and his driver Muhammad Saeed from Mangla lake here on Saturday ten days after the tragic accident.
The bodies Chughtai and his 37-years-old driver Muhammad Saeed s/o Muhammad Akter of Naghman Pura, Bagh district were surfaced and recovered from Sukhiyaan pocket of Mangla dam reservoir near ancient Ramkot fort located in middle of the giant reservoir of the country’s second largest Mangla dam.
Earlier the funeral prayer of late Chughtai’s driver Muhammad Saeed was offered at his native village in Rawalakot on Sunday where he was laid to rest the same day.
The unfortunate Member of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and Candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for Scheduled July 25 AJK General Elections, Sardar Muhammad Saghir Chughtai besides three other persons, lost their lives as his vehicle – in which he was travelling, besides another car, skidded into Jhelum river, after head on collision to eachother near Azad Patan in Kahuta Sub division of Rawalpindi while he was on way to Rawalakot from Rawalpindi on June 10.
All the four bodies, however, have so far been recovered from the river.
Sardar Saghir Ahmed Khan Chughtai was nominated as Candidate of the PTI from AJK’s Electoral Constituency LA-22 Rawalakot, Poonch Division, for AJK Legislative Assembly Elections scheduled to be held on July 25 this year.
Chughtai had, in the recent past, parted ways from the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, and joined the PTI AJK to contest the scheduled AJK elections.