FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, Uzbek President Islam Karimov leaves a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia. A national newsreader has delivered a televised Independence Day speech on behalf of ailing President Islam Karimov, who remains hospitalized in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, with a suspected brain hemorrhage. (Alexander Zemlianichenko, file/Associated Press)MOSCOW — A top Kyrgyz diplomat and an Afghan government official say Uzbekistan is holding a funeral for President Islam Karimov on Saturday. The Afghan official told The Associated Press on Friday that President Ashraf Ghani will attend Karimov’s funeral tomorrow. The Kyrgyz diplomat told the AP the country’s prime minister also had been invited to Karimov’s funeral.

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