KARACHI: The funeral prayers (Namaz-e-Janaza) for former Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawwar Hassan will be offered on Saturday (tomorrow) after Zuhr prayers at the Eidgah Ground in Nazimabad.
He will be laid to rest at the Sakhi Hasan Graveyard.
The former Jamaat-e-Islami ameer has passed away here on Friday.
The former JI ameer had been under treatment at a private hospital after his condition deteriorated on June 5.
JI MPA Syed Abdur Rashid has confirmed that the Munawwar Hassan had passed away after a protracted illness at a private hospital.
Hassan was the fourth Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. He was born in August 1941 in Delhi.
After the partition in 1947, he and his family migrated to Pakistan.
Hassan earned his masters degree in sociology in 1963 and in Islamiat in 1966 from the University of Karachi.
Munawwar Hassan remained Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan from 2009 to 2014.
He represented the Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan in several international conferences and seminars in the US, Canada and other countries.
