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Tributes pour in on social media to Abdul Sattar Edhi’s death

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Abdul Sattar Edhi began his charitable work as a young passionate man. The Edhi Foundation that he started now offers a broad range of free social services that includes ambulances, orphanages and support for the elderly and disabled.

 

Politicians and activists paid their respects:

 

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed his sorrow at Edhi’s death and prayed that he would have ‘the best place in paradise’.

“We have lost a great servant of humanity,” said Sharif while remembering the greatest humanitarian worker.

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The country’s actors and musicians also paid tribute: 

 

 

He opened his first clinic in 1951 and his Edhi Foundation grew to be Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation, running schools, hospitals and ambulance services across the country and worldwide.

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As did the Pakistani cricketers: 

 

 

Edhi was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2013. He actually turned down an offer from former president Asif Ali Zardari to get a treatment abroad.

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Indian minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj, Indian actor Anupam Kher, Indian journalist Barkha Dutt and boxer Amir Khan expressed their feelings on Twitter.

 

 

 

 

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