Summary The brave fighter pilot's funeral prayer was offered at Faisal Air Base Karachi.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Flying Officer Marium Mukhtar who died in yesterday’s trainer jet crash in Mianwali will be laid to rest Today (Wednesday).
The brave fighter pilot’s funeral prayer was offered at Faisal Air Base Karachi late Tuesday night; her flag-draped coffin was flown in from Mianwali to Faisal Air Base on a military C-130 plane and was received by PAF’s Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman and other officers.
The young pilot’s funeral was given a military salute by the PAF officers. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Shareef paid tribute to the valiant Flight Officer and commended her courage.
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The martyred Flying Officer’s funeral prayer was conducted by Squadron Leader Atiq-ur-Rehman and offered by her family, close relatives and PAF officers.
The high ranking officials of the PAF and others praised the young female pilot’s prowess. Her family held their heads up high as they her dignified final journey and the respect that she had instilled; however sadness still afflicted the heart of all attendees at the funeral. With sorrowful tears in their eyes and words of respect on their lips, they laid the young woman to her final resting place.
Mukhtar was one of the five exclusive and prestigious female fighter jet pilots of PAF in a highly traditional, patriarchal society where opportunities for women are limited.
Mukhtar and Squadron Leader Saqib Abbasi were flying a training mission on an FT-7PG aircraft and encountered a "serious in-flight emergency" during the final stages, the PAF said in a statement. The male officer, Abbasi, sustained minor injuries.
