RAWALPINDI: Funeral prayers of Pakistan Army’s Captain Muhammad Osama Bin Arshad Shaheed, who embraced martyrdom while defending the motherland in North Waziristan district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was offered at Chaklala Garrison Rawalpindi, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated in a press release.
Captain Muhammad Osama Bin Arshad Shaheed (age: 24, resident of Rawalpindi) embraced martyrdom during an intense fire exchange with terrorists while defending the motherland in North Waziristan.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir and a large number of serving and retired military officers, soldiers and relatives of Shaheed attended the funeral.
At the occasion, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif remarked, “These sacrifices reaffirm our resolve to defeat terrorism in all its forms for a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan,”. He said that the nation stands resolute against these foreign-abetted terrorists and their facilitators and these adversaries of Pakistan will be comprehensively defeated through a multi-domain strategy based on whole-of-the-system approach, InshAllah.
The Shaheed will be buried at his native home town where he will be laid to rest with full military honours.
