LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari visited the Abbasi family in their residence at Kot Durab Khan Abbasi locality in Waleed town on Friday and offered his condolences on the demise of Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi, a former minister of Sindh.

Munawwar Abbasi, who headed the Abbasi-Kalhora clan, had died in Karachi on June 26. A PPP old guard until the assassination of PPP co-chairperson and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, he and his family dissociated from the Asif Ali Zardari-led party. The family formed a new political entity and named it as PPP-Workers and also a local electoral alliance, the Larkana Awami Ittehad (LAI).

On Friday Mr Bhutto-Zardari visited the family and remained with them for some time. He offered condolences to the deceased leader’s brother, Dr Safdar Ali Abbasi, MPA Moazzam Ali Abbasi, Barrister Kazim Ali Abbasi and other members of the family.

He prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the departed soul in eternal peace and give courage and fortitude to the bereaved family.

Sindh PPP president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal, Larkana Mayor Khair Mohammad Shaikh, Jameel Ahmed Soo­mro and others accompanied the PPP chairman.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2020