Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi dies, leaves strong political legacy.

LARKANA -- Convener of the Larkana Awami Ittehad (LAI) Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi, who died in Karachi on Friday night at the age of 76, was laid to rest in the Arab Pir graveyard in Waleed town on Saturday.

His son, MPA Moazzam Ali Abbasi of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), said that his father was suffering from respiratory issues.

The deceased belonged to the well-reputed political Abbasi family that had a long association with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founder chairman and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The family braved political ups and downs and proactively participated in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1983.

Former PPP senator Dr Safdar Abbasi, who also served as the political secretary to Benazir Bhutto, is the younger brother of Haji Munawwar Ali Abbasi.

Hundreds of people from different shades of life and members of his caste attended the funeral.

Late Munawwar Ali Abbasi, commonly known as 'Haji sahib', had formed Abbasi-Kalhora Tanzeem for the general welfare of the community and headed it till his last breath. Under his watch the organisation spread throughout the province. Holding free eye camps was a major feature of the organisation which extended scholarships to deserving students.

Haji sahib was a close aide to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and had remained Larkana PPP's general secretary in 1973. In 1979, he was elected to the Larkana district council and later in the same year he became chairman of Larkana taluka council. He got his primary education from a village school and passed his matriculation from the Govt Pilot Secondary School in 1960. He did his graduation from Govt College Larkana in 1966 and obtained a law degree from the Law College Larkana in 1979.

Haji sahib won an MPA seat five times between 1988 and 2007. He won the election twice from Warah and twice from Mirokhan.

He held the provincial portfolios of minister for local government...

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