Funeral prayers in absentia held in Karachi for engineer of crashed cargo plane

Funeral prayers in absentia were held in Karachi for Muhammad Arif Siddiqui, a flight engineer whose cargo plane crashed in the Arabian Sea on July 7. The K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 crash killed five crew members, whose bodies remain unrecovered. Jamaat-i-Islami leader Muslim Parvez criticized the government’s search efforts and called for an independent investigation into the crash.