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KABUL, July 24 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, accompanied by a delegation including three ministers, attended the funeral of King Zahir Shah who was laid to rest at the ancestral graveyard here Tuesday. The Prime Minister was received at the Kabul Airport by Minister for Higher Education Muhammad Azam Dadfur and Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan Sardar Tariq Azizuddin.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani and Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao. An Afghan army contingent presented salute to Prime Minister Aziz on arrival.
Soon after his arrival, the Prime Minister went to the Presidential Palace to pay homage to the late king.
Pakistan was the only country that was represented at the funeral ceremony at the level of the head of government, signifying the traditional brotherly relations between the two countries.
The body of King Zahir Shah, known as father of the nation, lay in state at presidential palace enabling the delegations to pay last respects.
Later the coffin, which was placed at a gun carrier, was taken to the Eidgah and Prime Minister Aziz joined thousands of mourners and walked around a kilometer from the Presidential Palace to offer the funeral prayers.
The funeral was attended by thousands of people including notable Afghan leaders Burhanuddin Rabbani, Abdurrab Rasool Sayyaf, Marshal Abdul Wali and others.
The body was later taken to the ancestral graveyard Tapa-e-Maranjan for burial beside the grave of his father late King Nadir Shah.
Delegations from 20 countries arrived here to pay homage to the late king, including Prince Karim Aga Khan, British Foreign Secretary and Indian Minister for Water Resources Saifuddin Soz.
Ismailimail 
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