Eminent Pakistani humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi
who devoted his life to poor people, has kicked the bucket at 88 years old.
Mr Edhi's family said he kicked the bucket on Friday at a restorative focus in Karachi where he had been having treatment for a considerable length of time.
The Edhi Foundation now gives an expansive scope of free social administrations, including ambulances, shelters and backing for the elderly and incapacitated.
Thousands ran to the National Stadium in Karachi on Saturday for his memorial service, with an armed force gatekeeper of honor.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif communicated his distress at Mr Edhi's demise and said he asked that he would have "the best place in heaven".
"We have lost an awesome hireling of mankind," Mr Sharif said.
"He was the genuine indication of adoration for the individuals who were socially defenseless, bankrupted, vulnerable and poor."
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai depicted Mr Edhi as an "unbelievable figure".
"He carried on with his life for the lives and satisfaction of others and that is the reason he is a good example. I haven't seen any other individual like him," she told the BBC.
She likewise rehashed her call for him to be recompensed the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thousands went to the memorial service at the stadium, with thousands more not able to get in, authorities said.
After memorial service petitions and a firearm salute by the armed force, Mr Edhi's body was taken to Edhi town, which he established 25 years prior, to be let go.
Effortlessness, trustworthiness and diligent work
Mr Edhi originated from a group of Gujarati merchants and touched base in Pakistan in 1947.
Be that as it may, he chose to take up magnanimity subsequent to perceiving how the state neglected to help his family look after his deadened and sick mother, Dawn daily paper reported.
He opened his first center in 1951 and the Edhi Foundation developed to be the nation's biggest welfare association, running schools, healing facilities and emergency vehicle administrations the nation over, frequently connecting crevices to administrations which the state essentially neglects to give.
Journalists say Mr Edhi was Pakistan's most regarded figure and was seen by some as right around a holy person.
In 2014 he told the BBC that straightforwardness, trustworthiness, diligent work and dependability were the foundations of his work.
"It is everybody's obligation to deal with others, that is what being human means. On the off chance that more individuals suspected that way, such a variety of issues could be comprehended," he said.
He was likewise known for his unassuming way of life - he purportedly possessed only two arrangements of garments and lived in a little and meagerly outfitted room beside the workplace of his establishment.
Mr Edhi was determined to have kidney disappointment in 2013.
In June he turned down an offer from previous president Asif Ali Zardari to get treatment abroad, demanding being found in an administration doctor's facility in Pakistan.
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