Karachi: Thousands of tearful mourners, including women and children, yesterday thronged the streets of Pakistan’s largest city and sang the soul-stirring renditions of Amjad Sabri as they paid tributes to one of the country’s finest Sufi qawwals who was killed by Taliban militants.

Pakistani mourners gather around an ambulance carrying the coffin of Sufi musician Amjad Sabri during his funeral in Karachi yesterday.