Publication Date:
Sat, 2001-08-25 05:23
ISLAMABAD, 25 August — Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ghulam Ahmed was killed in a road accident yesterday. A trailer hit the car being driven by the general on the Talagang-Mianwali road. The chief of staff died at the scene and his wife is critically injured, Information Secretary Syed Anwar Mehmood said in the capital Islamabad.
Mehmood said Gen. Ahmed, a three-star general, was going to his home town of Dera Ghazi Khan and was accompanied by his wife and two daughters when the accident occurred.
The funeral ceremony for Gen. Ahmed will be held this morning at Chaklala Air Base and he will be buried in the family’s ancestral grave later in the day.
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