Man said to be 169 dies
NZPA-Reuter Islamabad A holy'man aged 169, has died in Islamabad, Pakistan’s official news media have reported. Radio Pakistan and the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency (A.P.P.) said Abdul Ma’abood Jilani was 169 and a hereditary Islamic divine of the mystic Chishtia order. However, they gave no proof of his age. According to the “Guinness Book of Records,” the world’s oldest person is a Japanese man, Shigechiyo Izumi, who was 120 last June.
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Press, 4 December 1985, Page 13
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