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Taxi driver’s body flown to Pakistan
DUBAI — The body of Abdullah Umar Khan, the taxi driver who was stabbed to death in a deserted area of Dubai on Thursday night,
Was flown from Dubai to the Pakistani city of Peshawar on a PIA flight late last night. The body will then be taken to his home village Hangu Darsamad for burial.
Earlier, 50-year-old Khan's funeral prayers were held at the Maktoum Hospital after the body was released from the mortuary yesterday evening. The prayers were attended by Abdul Aziz, Khan's elder brother from Qatar, Khan's other relatives in the UAE, UAE-based friends of the family who live in the same village, senior officials and colleagues from his Metro Taxi company in Dubai, drivers of other taxi companies, and prominent members of the Pakistani community.
Khan's body was accompanied by Aziz. He told Khaleej Times after the funeral prayers that arrangements had been made to receive the body at Peshawar airport and to take it to the village by road.
Khan's cousin, Mohammad Ali, said that depending on the flight leaving Dubai on the scheduled depature time of 12.30 am, the body will arrive in Peshawar at 5 am and in the home village by 10 am today.
A senior official of Metro told Khaleej Times that a relative of Khan, who also works in the company, has been allowed leave and provided air ticket to travel to Pakistan with the body. He said that the company would pay Dh1,000 every month to Khan's family and bear all the medical expenses for the treatment of Khan's wife in Pakistan.
Aziz added that Khan had no enmity with any one and his brutal murder had come to them as a shock. "Nothing can bring my brother back to life. This is a reality that he is not among us any more," he said.
"I am preparing myself to handle the situation when Khan's sick wife sees the body of her husband. She could get a heart attack," Aziz said.
Aziz said that Khan's wife and their 10 children were living in a rented house in Peshawar. Of the children, five were girls. two of the daughters were married, two others were grown up enough to be married, while the fifth daughter was small. Of the five sons, three were very young.
None of Khan's sons had a job since it is very difficult to get a job in Pakistan, Aziz said adding that at the most what one could do is to have a small shop of some sort.
Aziz said that he had now come to know that the rent of the house in Peshawar, in which Khan's family was residing, had not been paid for three months. The family has moved from Peshawar to the village for the last rites of Khan.
The taxi drivers attending the funeral voiced concern over the death of Khan. "Today, it has happened to Khan, tomorrow it could happen to any one of us," they said.
Mohammad Akbar, who hails from Khan's village and had come to Dubai from Al Ain to attend the funeral prayers, said, "People can get taxis round the clock. It is so convenient for all of us. But, if these kind of incidents continue, the taxi drivers will not ply their taxis in the night at all or will not carry passengers to remote and isolated places."
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