At the funeral of the deceased, the Royal British Legion Nottingham Branch paid tribute to him and gave him a final farewell salute. Inayat Ali served as a soldier in the British Indian Army and the Pakistan Army from 1941 to 1957. Initially, he joined the Engineering Corps and was later posted to the 50th Indian Parachute Brigade. After the formation of Pakistan, he also participated in the Kashmir War of Independence in 1948. After retirement from the Pakistan Army, he settled in the Meadows area of Tottenham in 1960 during the construction of the Mangla Dam.
He founded the Meadows Muslim Centre here, which continues to provide worship and other facilities to the Muslim community today.
The Queen of Great Britain congratulated Inayat Ali on her 100th birthday and King Charles also sent her a message of congratulations on her 105th birthday. Dignitaries from across the UK and from political, social and civil society circles in Azad Kashmir expressed their condolences to Inayat Ali’s eldest son, Haji Abdul Razzaq, and his family, prayed for their forgiveness and paid tribute to the brave services of the deceased.
Inayat Ali was born in 1920 in the famous village of Chak Harim in the city of Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, to a landowning peasant family. He spent half of his life in Azad Kashmir and more than half in Nottingham, UK. He is survived by a son and a daughter, as well as dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.