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Pakistan holds state funeral for philanthropist
short by Yash Kumar / on Sunday, 10 July, 2016
A state funeral was held for Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi at Karachi National Stadium, Pakistan's first since the 1980s. He was known as 'Pakistan's Mother Teresa' for his simplicity and charity through donations, focusing on addicts, battered women, orphans and the disabled. Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said that she had nominated him for Noble Peace prize.
read more at Al Jazeera