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

Karachi residents gathered on Sunday to offer funeral prayers in absentia for Muhammad Arif Siddiqui, a flight engineer tragically lost in the crash of a K2 Airways cargo plane. The Boeing 737-400 was en route from Sharjah to Karachi when it disappeared over the Arabian Sea approximately 300 kilometers west of the city on July 7.

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The funeral pray­ers in absentia for flight engineer Muhammad Arif Siddiqui, one of the five crew members of a cargo plane that crashed in the Arabian Sea on July 7, were offered near his residence in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Sunday.

Siddiqui was one of five crew members on board, including two pilots, two engineers, and a support staffer. Despite extensive deep-sea search operations, the wreckage and the bodies of the crew have yet to be recovered. The funeral prayers, led by Siddiqui's son, Abdul Rafay, were held near his residence in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and were attended by a large number of mourners, witnessing deeply emotional scenes.

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On Sunday, a large number of people offered funeral prayers in absentia for Siddiqui, which was led by his son, Abdul Rafay.

The service highlighted a growing public demand for more robust government efforts to locate the missing crew members. Speakers at the event, including leaders from Jamaat-i-Islami, criticized what they described as inadequate efforts to find the victims. The community's grief is compounded by the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the K2 Airways crew, emphasizing the urgent need for continued and intensified search and recovery operations.

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People demanded that the government intensify efforts to locate the bodies of the victims.