Senior Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai passed away on Thursday in Peshawar after a prolonged illness, Geo News reported. He was 67. Informing about the journalist's demise, his son Arshad Yusufzai, in a tweet, said his father breathed his last after fighting a long battle against cancer. My father Rahimullah Yusufzai has breathed his last after fighting a long battle against cancer. His funeral will be held at our native village Inzargai, near Babuzai Interchange, Swat Expressway, Katlang Tehsil in Mardan District on Friday 10 Sep at 11AM — Arshad Yusufzai (@YusufzaiArshad) September 9, 2021 Yusufzai's funeral will be held at his native village Inzargai on Friday. Yusufzai was the resident editor of The News International at the Peshawar Bureau and also a correspondent of BBC's Pashto and Urdu services in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. He is famous for having interviewed Osama bin Laden, and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
