{"id":79652,"date":"2025-07-06T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79652"},"modified":"2025-07-06T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T15:29:52","slug":"ji-leader-rao-muhammad-zafar-passes-away-after-prolonged-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ji-leader-rao-muhammad-zafar-passes-away-after-prolonged-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"JI leader Rao Muhammad Zafar passes away after prolonged illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In tragic news, the former emir of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bannu-tribal-jirga-attack-leaves-one-dead-three-other-injured\/\">Jamaat-e-Islami<\/a> (JI) South Punjab branch, Rao Muhammad Zafar, has died on Sunday due to a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Zafar was also the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/first-palestinian-medical-students-batch-arrive-in-pakistan-to-continue-studies\/\">Alkhidmat Foundation<\/a> Punjab. His funeral prayers were offered today at 8:00 PM, in which several political personalities were present.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, \u00a0ex-JI deputy chief Professor Khurshid Ahmad died in April in Leicester, United Kingdom, at the age of 93.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ahmad was born in Delhi on March 23, 1932. He had a degree in legal studies and completed master&#8217;s degrees in Economics and Islamic Studies from the University of Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Karachi later conferred an honorary degree in Education upon him for his illustrious service to academia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: In tragic news, the former emir of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) South Punjab branch, Rao Muhammad Zafar, has died on Sunday due to a long illness. Zafar was also the president of the Alkhidmat Foundation Punjab. His funeral prayers were offered today at 8:00 PM, in which several political personalities were present. Earlier, \u00a0ex-JI deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":79653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29942,29943],"class_list":["post-79652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-ji-leader-rao-muhammad","tag-rao-muhammad-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79654,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79652\/revisions\/79654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}