KARACHI: Kh Zakiuddin passes away

Published January 17, 2003

KARACHI, Jan 16: Khwaja Zakiuddin, eldest son of the late Khwaja and Begum Farhat Shahabuddin, passed away here on Thursday. He was 85.

He leaves his widow, two daughters and a son.

He had graduated from Dhaka University, and studied at the University College, London. He began his carrier with Grindlays Bank in Bombay in 1943, and served at the company’s offices in Calcutta, Karachi and Peshawar before joining the State Bank of Pakistan in Karachi in the early fifties. He served the State Bank in various capacities in Karachi, Khulna and Dhaka, and retired from service in January 1976.

His Namaz-i-Janaza will be held at Sultan Masjid, Khayaban-i-Hafiz, after Juma prayers.

Soyem will be held at his residence — 33/II Khayaban-i-Badr, DHA, Phase VI — on Sunday between Asr and Maghrib prayers.

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