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Aaqib Rasool

Ganderbal 02 Mar (KNZ): Former Cabinet Minister Qazi Mohd Afzal, who was admitted to SKIMS Soura died Friday last night due to organ failure.

Senior PDP leader Qazi Afzal breathed his last at around 7:50 pm yesterday . He was 80.

His condition had worsened in last few days and was on ventilator support .

He was not well from last few years and was undergoing treatment in and outside valley.

Qazi Afzal successfully contested 2002 assembly elections from Ganderbal when he defeated NC’s Omar Abdullah and became forest minister in PDP- Congress coalition government.

Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was the first to extend his condolences.

Qazi Afzal was today laid to rest .A sea of people participated in Qazi Afzal’s funeral procession from his house to his ancestral graveyard in Lar Ganderbal.KNZ