PREMIUM --

File picture of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and founder of the country, whose funeral were held in Abu Dhabi on 3 November 2004. Many heads of state gathered for the ceremony, among them, Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf, Jordan's King Abdallah II, Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah Bin Abdul Aziz, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai, Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Syria's Bashar El Assad, Bahrain's king, etc. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACA.