KARACHI: Social worker and philanthropist Bilquis Bano Edhi was laid to rest here at the Mewa Shah graveyard on Saturday.
She had passed away due to multiple ailments at a local hospital at the age of 74 on Friday.
Bilquis Edhi was the wife of humanitarian and philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Her funeral prayers were offered at New Memon Mosque on MA Jinnah Road, which were also attended by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and his cabinet members.
Paying rich tribute to the philanthropist, the chief minister said that her services to humanity would be “written in golden words on the annals of history”.
She was a motherly figure for orphaned children and shelterless women, a statement issued by the CM Office quoted him as saying.
The Sindh government had issued an official obituary for Bilquis on Friday and announced a day of mourning on Saturday. The chief minister had also visited Edhi Centre after her body was shifted and offered his condolences to her son, Faisal Edhi.
