SARGODHA: Central leader of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Maulana Muhammad Akram Tufani on Sunday passed away at the age of 98 in Sargodha, Bol news channel reported.

Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nabuwwat’s district president Qari Abdul Waheed confirmed the news of death of Maulana Akram Tufani.

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His funeral prayer would be offered at 11:00 am on Monday at Eidgah.

On December 21, renowned haematologist and bone marrow transplantation (BMT) physician Dr Tahir Shamsi had passed away in Karachi.

Dr Tahir Shamsi was undergoing treatment at a private hospital for a ruptured cerebral artery. He was put on ventilator as his condition deteriorated.

He was recently admitted to a private hospital after he had a brain hemorrhage.

Dr Tahir Shamsi was the medial director of National Institute of Blood Diseases. He introduced bone marrow transplantation in Pakistan in 1996. He performed 650 transplants and wrote more than 100 research articles.

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In 2011, Dr Shamsi founded the National Institute for the Treatment of Blood Diseases, and in 2016, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Dow Graduates Association of North America in recognition of his services.