PESHAWAR: The venue of the funeral prayer of Qazi Hussain Ahmad has been changed, as it would now be held at Motorway Chowk Ring Road instead of Jinnah Park here on Sunday.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, 74 had passed away last night at 1.00 A.M.
Qazi Hussain Ahmed was a cardiac patient and also suffered from asthma. He was admitted into a private hospital at F-10 Islamabad for the last three days, where he succumbed to a severe heart attack.
Qazi was born in 1938 in the house of Maulana Qazi Muhammad Abdul Rab at Ziarat Kaka Sahib, Distt. Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,
After completing early education at home, Qazi Hussain Ahmad took admission in Islamia College, Peshawar and after that got his Masters of Science degree in Geography from Peshawar University. He served as lecturer for three years.
His affiliation with the Islamic Movement started in his school days when he joined Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, Pakistan.
He became member of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1970 and was elected to the office of President of its Peshawar branch. He served Jamaat-e-Islami as Secretary and then Ameer of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
He was raised to the office of Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan in 1978 and thereafter elected as Ameer (Chief) of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan in 1987, continued to serve in that capacity, getting re-elected four more times (1992, 1994, 1999, 2003).
In 2008, he excused to be elected once more and the members of his Party (Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan) elected Syed Munawwar Hassan as the new President of the Party.
