RAWALPINDI: The funeral prayer of martyred Lieutenant Uzair Mehmood Malik was offered in Peshawar Garrison on Sunday, the military’s media wing said.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the officer who was injured in an exchange of fire with Khawarij in Tirah Valley of Khyber district embraced martyrdom at Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar today.
Corps Commander Peshawar, relatives of the martyred officer and a large number of military and civil officials attended the funeral prayer.
Martyred Lieutenant Uzair Mehmood Malik (age: 24 years, resident of District Attock) will be buried in his hometown with full military honours.
ISPR said that on 09 August, a fire exchange took place between security forces and Khawarij at one of the locations in Bagh, where Lieutenant Uzair Mehmood Malik was leading his troops from the front.
According to the statement during intense fire exchange, the officer got critically injured and was under treatment at CMH Peshawar. “Today he succumbed to injuries and embraced Shahadat,” the ISPR said.
