Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani pop star turned Muslim orator, was travelling in an airbus with his wife that collided with a mountainside o...
Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani pop star turned Muslim orator, was travelling in an airbus with his wife that collided with a mountainside on Wednesday, an aircraft official told Reuters.
Mr Jamshed soared to acclaim in Pakistan in the 1990s as the vocalist for the Vital Signs shake bunch, and later propelled a solo performance, with a string of top-albums collections and hits.
His name showed up on a traveler manifest for Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) flight PK661, which slammed close to the northern town of Havelian. His nearness on board was affirmed by Sohail Ahmed, a PIA official in Chitral.
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| Tweet of Junaid Jamshed from Chitral, few hours before mishap |
Mr Jamshed resigned from music in 2001 and reported that he was giving his life to Islam, joining the preservationist Tableeghi Jamaat religious association. The plane slammed in a village close to the town of Havelian, around 75 kilometers (45 miles) north west of the capital Islamabad, as indicated by senior cop Khurram Rasheed. The little twin-propeller air ship was going from the city of Chitral to Islamabad when it slammed not long after take-off.
As per Daniyal Gilani, the representative for Pakistan International Airlines, the plane had put some distance between the control tower preceding the crash. He said the plane was conveying 42 travelers, five team individuals and a ground engineer.
Pakistani media and others assembled at Benazir Bhutto International Airport taking after a report that a traveler plane taking off from Chitral, in the nation's north, had smashed close to a town close to the town of Havelian .The reason for the crash was not promptly clear.
Civil Aviation Authority representative Pervez George said a group of specialists would decide the cause subsequent to recovering the plane's discovery recorder. "I don't think there is any shot of finding any survivors," he said.
Television footage indicated trash from the plane and a monstrous fire at the site of the crash.
The footage demonstrated neighborhood villagers gathering the remaining parts of the travelers and covering the bodies with fabrics.In an announcement, the military said that 36 bodies had been recovered as such. A representative for the inside service said a group had been dispatched to distinguish the bodies through DNA tests.
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