Young Naat and Manqabat Khawan, Ali Kazim Khawaja, his elder brother Nadeem Khawaja and Jan Ali Shah Kazmi were laid to rest in their native villages after thousands of people attended their funeral in Gilgit-Baltistan, on Saturday.
Ali, 16, and his brother Nadeem, 18, from Skardu; and Jan, 24, from Shigar along with social activist Zain Turabi, the son of religious scholar Hasan Turabi; and Abdul Ghani Mangrio of Rohri were returning to Karachi after attending a religious ceremony in Khairpur on Friday when an SUV hit their car head-on near Sann Town on the Indus Highway.
All five men died on the spot due to the intensity of the collision.
The bodies were taken to Manjhand taluka hospital and later to Karachi where two of them were buried. The bodies of the three men were brought to Skardu through a PIA flight for burial in Skardu and Shigar.
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