{"id":36972,"date":"2024-05-21T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36972"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T07:21:49","slug":"pakistan-observes-one-day-mourning-for-iranian-helicopter-crash-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-observes-one-day-mourning-for-iranian-helicopter-crash-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan observes one-day mourning for Iranian helicopter crash victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsdetailtitle\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is observing a day of national mourning on Tuesday to express fraternal solidarity with the Government and the people of Iran, on the sad demise of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other dignitaries in the helicopter crash incident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared today as the day of national mourning and for that the National flag will fly at half-mast throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Government and the people of Pakistan, provincial governemnts have also annouced Tuesday as moruing to show solidertiy with Iranian perople.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On the sad demise of the President of Iran, H. E. Mr. Ebrahim Raisi, and other Iranian dignitarics, the Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has declared Tuesday, May 21, 2024 as a Day of National Mourning in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, the National Flag shall fly at half-mast\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kh4ENVFNFI\">pic.twitter.com\/kh4ENVFNFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Government of Pakistan (@GovtofPakistan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovtofPakistan\/status\/1792616874745725140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and seven other found dead after their helicopter crashed on Monday in a foggy, mountainous region of the country\u2019s northwest, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-helicopter-crash-incident-israel-issued-an-important-statement\/\">Iran helicopter crash incident: Israel issued an important statement<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A funeral procession for Iran\u2019s President Raisi will be held in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Tuesday (today), before transferring the body to Tehran, IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>The director of a local office of Iran\u2019s Islamic Propagation Organization in Tabriz Hojjatoleslam Mahmoud Hosseini said the bodies of Raisi and his colleagues are being kept in Tabriz cemetery on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini told IRNA&#8217;s correspondent on Monday that a funeral procession will be held on Tuesday during which the people of Tabriz will bid farewell to the president and carry his body to the Tabriz airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is observing a day of national mourning on Tuesday to express fraternal solidarity with the Government and the people of Iran, on the sad demise of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other dignitaries in the helicopter crash incident. 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