Pakistan hockey player Shahida Raza buried in Quetta

National Hockey Player Shahida Raza His body was cremated in Quetta on Friday after being brought back from Italy.

Reza passed a migrant shipwreck off the coast of Italy in February.

known as Chanto In his circles, the player represented Pakistan in hockey at the international level. She also played football locally.

To secure a better future for his disabled son, Reza He was included in the list of human traffickers to be deported from Pakistan. She died when the boat carrying her – and many others – sank off the coast of Italy last month.

According to her friend and former colleague, Samaya Kainat, Raza, 27, left her home with the goal of eventually reaching Italy or Australia and seeking asylum there.

“She was the sole breadwinner of the family,” Kainat said Reuters.

She told me that as soon as she got a job, she would take her son Hasan with her.

Kainat added that Hasan, at the age of 3, was born with a disability that left him unable to speak or walk.

Shahida started playing hockey in the National League in 2007 and was sponsored by local departments for years, said Kainat and Balochistan government officials.

When the sponsorship ended, Kainat said, Shahida was left jobless in a country facing its worst economic crisis in decades.

Earlier, Vice President of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Shehla Raza and Secretary of PH Women Wing Tanzilah Aamir Cheema and other people associated with hockey expressed their grief over his demise.

Pakistan Hockey Federation President Brigadier R. Khalid Sajjad Khokhar, Secretary General Haider Hussain, Chairperson Women’s Hockey Wing Syeda Shehla Raza, GM Women’s Wing Tanzilah Aamir Cheema expressed their condolences to the family of former international women’s hockey player Shahida Raza (Chinto). What is it. who died due to an accident and prayed for his forgiveness,” PFF said in a press release.

At least 59 immigrants incl PakistanisThe man died after his overloaded boat capsized in stormy seas off Italy’s southern Calabria region, officials said.

In connection with the incident, two Pakistanis and a Turk were arrested on suspicion of smuggling 200 migrants on board, local police said.