Srinagar, April 01, KDC: J&K Students Association on Friday thanked External Affairs Ministry and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for facilitating return of mortal remains of Kashmiri engineer Mustakeem Ahmad Pandit from Saudi Arabia.
In a statement to news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC), National Spokesperson of Association Nasir Khuehami said that a Kashmiri engineer Mustakeem Ahmad Pandit suffered massive cardiac arrest and was shifted to emergency room of a local hospital at All Wajh Saudi Arabia where he was declared dead. Mustakeem was working in Al Yamama Company as a Civil Engineer.
Khuehami thanked and expressed gratitude to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for taking matter with Minister of External affairs and India Embassy in Saudi and extending a humanitarian helping hand and facilitating return of dead body back to his family, for completion of last rites at his ancestral village at Yaripora Kulgam.
Khuehami said that the association took the matter of repatriation of mortal remains to the Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor from the very first day and provided those details of the deceased Kashmiri engineer.
“The LG Office coordinated with the External Affairs Ministry for earliest reparation of mortal remains. The J&K Govt immediately intervened in it and resolved the matter at the earliest possible time” Khuehami added.
“We had demanded from authorities to facilitate the return of the dead body of the deceased back to his ancestral village and finally it was made possible. In getting the young engineers’ mortal remains back to home from Saudi Arabia for the last rites at his ancestral village, the family requested us to take up matter with JK LG and MEA to help in bringing a body of the deceased, ” he further added.
“JKSA expresses deepest condolences and stands with the family in sharing their grief besides praying for peace for the departed soul.
“It is indeed a heart wrenching tragedy & our heartfelt sympathies are with the family of late Mustakeem” concluded Khuehami.
Mustakeem was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in South Kashmir.
