LAHORE, May 1: The Border Security Force of India handed over to the Pakistan Rangers at the Wagah border on Thursday the body of a 55-year-old Pakistani, who was on a visit to India and died in a New Delhi hospital.

Mohammad Shaukat and his son Mohammad Javed had gone to India to pay homage to Hazrat Nizamuddin on April 21. But because of some severe illness, he was admitted to a hospital where he died on April 28.

Punjab Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Ihsanuddin Qureshi, who received the body at the Wagah border, told Dawn that Shaukat, who hailed from Multan was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure and according to his information he died of cardiac arrest.

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