Poet Safdar Sial passes away.

JHANG -- Renowned poet, activist, journalist, livestock expert and PPP's first district secretary general Safdar Saleem Sial passed away on Friday. He was 82.

Sial remained secretary general of the Farmers Associates of Pakistan also. He was sent behind bars during the rule of Gen Zia for writing poetry against the trial and then execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

His books include Pesh-i-Nazr and Khawab Tabdeel Karain.

His...

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