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The 87-year-old had passed away a day ago.
He was the father of Supreme Court Justice Yahya Afridi and had also served as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary.
The people attended the funeral in large numbers, including Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmad Khan, Supreme Court and high court judges, politicians, current and former bureaucrats, lawyers and people from other walks of life.
Mr Omar, who had served as the minister for interior, state and frontier region and narcotics control in the interim government of PM Malik Meraj Khalid, belonged to the Adamkhel branch of Afridis.
He was born in London, UK, in Jan 1934. He had obtained education in Presentation Convent Murree, Bishop Cotton School Shimla (India), Karachi Grammar School, and Victoria College, Alexandria (Egypt).
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The writer is a retired major general and has an interest in International Relations and Political Sociology. He can be reached at [email protected] and tweets @20 Inam
It was a long line for the metro ticket in Vienna. When my turn came, the man at the window asked me where I was from. When I said Pakistan, he was eager, telling me how he had been harbouring a dream to visit our Northern Areas (NAs). My encouragement lifted his spirits, although he seemed undaunted by the media-generated negative perception of Pakistan.
February 2021 started off with a somewhat unnecessary, if also short-lived, flutter over the possibility of some forward movement in the bitter and frozen bilateral relationship between India and Pakistan. On 2 February, while addressing an army graduation ceremony, Pakistan Army Chief, Gen Qamar Bajwa, said, “It is time to extend hand of peace in all directions.” In the same speech, he also said, “Pakistan and India must also resolve the longstanding issue of Jammu and Kashmir in a dignified and peaceful manner as per the aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and bring this human tragedy to its logical conclusion,” and then added the standard warning (repeated ad nauseam over the last seven decades) that Pakistan’s desire for peace shouldn’t be taken as a sign of weakness.