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Brother of former ISPR boss passes away

By Monitoring Report
Pakistan's army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor speaks with media representatives as he gives details of a captured would-be female suicide bomber Noreen Leghari during a press conference in Rawalpindi on April 17, 2017. A would-be female suicide bomber now in the Pakistani army's custody planned to carry out an attack on a church in Lahore on Easter Sunday on April 16, a military spokesman has said. Noreen Leghari, a second year medical student, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and was planning an attack with a male accomplice, army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told reporters. Legahri was captured during a raid by security forces conducted overnight on April 14 that left four soldiers wounded and her accomplice dead, he added. / AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

ISLAMABAD: Akhtar Iqbal, elder brother of former Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general Lt. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, passed away in Rawalpindi on Sunday.

Iqbal breathed his last at Military Hospital Rawalpindi where he was under treatment.

His funeral will be offered in the Askari IX neighbourhood in Lahore on Monday and he will be buried in a graveyard in Defence Housing Authority (DHA).

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