Bhoja Air plane crash: ‘He died a martyr’

A cleric in his mid-20s was also one of the passengers.

KARACHI: Also on the flight was Usman Rasheed, a cleric in his mid-20s. Originally from Hazara, Rasheed had studied at Karachi’s Jamia Binoria for five years and become an aalim. “He had come to Karachi to meet his teachers. He left the seminary before Asr prayers,” recalled Jamia Binoria’s Mufti Naeemur Rehman. “A car from the seminary dropped him at the airport a few hours ago and now he has been martyred.”

Published in The Express Tribune, April 21^st, 2012.