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Summary Funeral of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud will be offered today.
President Asif Ali Zardari and PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujat Hussain have left for Saudi Arabia to attend the funeral ceremony of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.The body of Sultan, who died of colon cancer in New York on Saturday, was flown back to Riyadh on Monday. Hundreds of men, including Saudi King Abdullah, gathered on the airport runway to watch as the coffin was lowered into an ambulance and driven away.Sultans funeral will be held before the afternoon prayer in the conservative Islamic state and his body will then be taken away for burial.Like the deceased king Fahd, he was a member of the Sudairi Seven, the powerful alliance of seven surviving sons of Abdulaziz and one of his wives, Princess Hissa Al Sudairi.Sultan served as defence minister for nearly 50 years, the longest term of any Saudi minister, and brought advanced military hardware to the kingdom from the US and UK.
