Senior Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai passes away after extended sickness

Senior Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai handed away on Thursday in Peshawar after extended sickness, Geo News reported. He was 67.
Informing concerning the journalist’s demise, his son Arshad Yusufzai, in a tweet, stated his father breathed his final after preventing a protracted battle in opposition to most cancers.

My father Rahimullah Yusufzai has breathed his final after preventing a protracted battle in opposition to most cancers. His funeral will likely be held at our native village Inzargai, close to Babuzai Interchange, Swat Expressway, Katlang Tehsil in Mardan District on Friday 10 Sep at 11AM https://t.co/3EAvfeiCOA
— Arshad Yusufzai (@YusufzaiArshad) September 9, 2021
Yusufzai’s funeral will likely be held at his native village Inzargai on Friday.
Yusufzai was the resident editor of The News International on the Peshawar Bureau and in addition a correspondent of BBC’s Pashto and Urdu companies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He is legendary for having interviewed Osama bin Laden, and Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar.