- PM to go to UAE after conclusion of London huddle.
- Premier to supply condolences to UAE crown prince.
- Sheikh Khalifa died after years-long battle with illnes.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will go to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to supply condolences on the demise of the emirate’s ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
A press release from the PM Workplace stated Saturday the prime minister would provide his condolence to the Crown Prince of UAE Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan tomorrow (Sunday) — after arriving within the state following the conclusion of the London huddle.
In a condolence message earlier, the prime minister stated Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan laid the inspiration of UAE, whereas Sheikh Khalifa — his eldest son — strengthened it and gave it exemplary growth.
PM Shehbaz stated Sheikh Khalifa took his father’s developmental imaginative and prescient for the UAE to new heights with fifty years of steady exhausting work. He added that his dying was an important loss for the Muslim Ummah.
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The UAE president died yesterday aged 73 after a years-long battle with sickness, triggering a interval of mourning and a handover of energy within the oil-rich Gulf state.
Sheikh Khalifa, who was in workplace throughout a time of rocketing fortunes for the United Arab Emirates however was hardly ever seen in public, was laid to relaxation in Abu Dhabi’s Al Bateen Cemetery simply hours after his dying was introduced.
Sheikh Khalifa’s funeral prayers have been carried out by his anticipated successor and half-brother Mohamed bin Zayed, who has lengthy been seen because the nation’s de facto ruler.
Probably the most seen testomony to Sheikh Khalifa is the world’s tallest constructing, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which was renamed after he bailed out the debt-hit emit when the worldwide monetary disaster struck in 2009.
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Flags flew at half-mast above the inside ministry in Abu Dhabi and different landmarks initially of 40 days of official mourning, with work suspended in the private and non-private sectors till Tuesday.
Emirati males in conventional costume attended sombre funeral prayers at Abu Dhabi’s huge, white-marble Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, the place the imam’s voice brimmed with emotion over the loudspeaker.
Sheikh Khalifa took over because the UAE’s second president in November 2004, succeeding his father because the sixteenth ruler of Abu Dhabi, the richest of the federation’s seven emirates.
He has made few public appearances since 2014, when he had surgical procedure following a stroke, though he has continued to challenge rulings.
The reason for dying was not instantly launched.
— Extra enter from AFP
