had great respect for religious scholars and institutions. He laid the foundation of three mosques in the village by donating precious land for the purpose.
He had reserved a portion of his Hujra for the small children from his neighbourhood to learn the holy Quran. Having a powerful physique, Pir Nasrullah never seriously fell ill in his life, but he was diagnosed with a fatal disease in his liver-carcinoma after being examined by a specialist doctor in Mardan in January this year.
His elder son Pir Darwesh Kheshgi said the doctors had told them that Pir Sahib had no chance of recovery when the result of his medical tests from Peshawar and Islamabad arrived. “We were advised to take him home,” he recalled.
“Miraculously when we reached home Gul Baba (Pir Nasrullah) had no pain in his chest. He regularly prayed at the mosque and met people at his Hujra before his death on February 20,” recalled Pir Darwesh, a lawyer by profession.
Before his death, Pir Nasrullah went into coma on Thursday and breathed his last early Friday (February 20) in his bed in Mohalla Pir Koroona in Kheshgi village.He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard the same day. Hundreds of people, including villagers, friends, relatives and well-wishers, attended his funeral prayer.
Besides others, Awami National Party secretary general Mian Iftikhar Hussain and Syed Aqil Shah, Jamaat-e-Islami leader Asif Luqman Qazi, Qaumi Watan Party’s provincial chief Sikander Sherpao, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Dr Imran Khattak and Mian Jamsheduddin Kakakhel, Ishaq Khattak, Pakistan People’s Party’s Mian Muzaffar Shah, Qaumi Watan Party’s Syed Afzal Shah and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s Waleed Akhtar turned up to offer condolences and attend his funeral prayer. Journalists, lawyers, policemen and teachers also attended the Nimaz-i-Janaza in large numbers as Pir Nasrullah’s sons included a journalist, a lawyer, a police officer and a lawyer.
Pir Nasrullah was the elder brother of Haji Said Mali Khan and Haji Raz Ali Khan and father of Baroz Khan, SHO Nizampur, Pir Darwesh Kheshgi Advocate, Mohammad Wakeel Khan, Khalid Khan Kheshgi, and Pir Hamid, lecturer in Fine Arts.