Respectable burials demanded.

MANSEHRA -- Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader Mufti Kifayatullah has demanded respectable burial of the people, who died of novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

Mr Kifayatullah told supporters in Khaki area here after release from jail that the Covid-19 patients shouldn't be laid to rest without the performing of funeral prayers and other rituals.

He said the district police officer, who booked him in a concocted case, wanted to kill him in the district jail but the prisoners came to rescue him, so he survived.

'The DPO sent a team to kill me inside the jail under the garb of Covid-19 testing but I refused to be screened for the virus. The team attempted to attack me but prisoners rescued me...