Peshawar:
Funeral prayers in absentia for Osama bin Laden were offered on the premises of the Peshawar High Court in northwest Pakistan by a group of lawyers affiliated to the Jamaat-e-Islami.
The Islamic Lawyers Movement arranged the 'ghayabana namaz-e-janaza' that were led by its leader Ghulam Nabi in the lawns of the High Court yesterday.
About 120 lawyers, most of them linked to the ILM, joined the prayers.
Retired judges, former Deputy Advocate General Ubaidullah Anwar, ML-N lawyers' wing leader F M Sabir, lawyers linked to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and staff of the High Court also joined the prayers.
The lawyers shouted slogans like "Death to the US" and "Long Live Osama".
After the prayers, 'fateha was offered for bin Laden, who was killed in a raid by US special forces near the garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday.
ILM leader Ghulam Nabi said bin Laden was a leader of the Muslim world and had started a jihad against US "atrocities" on Muslims across the globe.
Criticising Pakistani security forces, Nabi said even though they were consuming 80 per cent budget of the country, they were unaware of the US operation near the Pakistan Military Academy.
The army and the government are working to promote the US agenda in Pakistan, he claimed.
Nabi alleged the government and some politicians had become "US agents" and were happy at the death of bin Laden.