The CIOG is extending gratitude to Mehran Trading Company for providing a bus to augment the services its hearse department offers to the Islamic community.
In a press release the group said the burial of the dead is an important aspect of its work and as such a special hearse department has been established within the organisation to address this mandatory duty.
In keeping with Islamic tradition, the department has two main objectives: to facilitate the poor and needy in all aspects of funeral arrangements; that is providing cotton, coffin, bathing supplies, digging of graves, advice to the bereaved family and providing transportation and to assist Muslims with making and implementing decisions made by the deceased family members.
It will also serve bereaved relatives by providing janaza (funeral prayer) for the deceased regardless of their financial circumstances. This service will be provided to poor and indigent families free of cost. โOver the last three years, 536 burials were handled of which 53 were free of cost and 98 had been partly paid for by relatives of the deceased.
The CIOG said this service was made possible through the intervention of Osama Qasmi, the local representative of Mehran Trading, who donated a Mazda Bongo minibus to the department.
