Monday, July 13, 2009

Amir Begum Bhutto

Amir Begum Bhutto
Shirin Amir Begum was first wife of former prime minister late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Shirin Begum was married to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, her cousin, in 1951 when Mr Bhutto was 23-year-old and was studying in Bombay.
She returned to Naudero when Mr Bhutto left for London for pursuing higher studies. Since then, she remained there. Before death sentence was executed Amir Begum met with Bhutto in Adiala Jail Rawalpindi on March 8, 1979 and on March 26, 1979, just a few days before his hanging.
She died of cardiac arrest here on January 19 (Sunday). She was 82.
She was laid to rest near the grave of her husband in the ancestral graveyard of the Bhutto family in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh Bhutto.
Hearing the news of her death, the whole town remained shut as a mark of mourning and hundreds of people thronged the residence of Benazir Bhutto in Naudero.

Shirin Begum, who was the first wife of Bhutto, developed chest congestion and was shifted to the cardiology department of the Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana on late Saturday (January 18, 2003) night.
There, she suffered a heart attack and later her kidneys stopped functioning and she died.
Ameer Begum had participated in Benazir Bhutto’s election campaign in 1988.
PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her sister Sanam Bhutto were informed of the death in Dubai and London, respectively. Later, Ms Bhutto contacted her house in Naudero by telephone to offer condolence.

She had no child but adopted a girl Lubna, who is working at present in Saudi Arabia.
Her first death anniversary was observed silently on January19, 2004
Pakistan Peoples Party at Municipality, Naundero, offered Langar after Quran Khuwani.
No leader of the party came to attend the anniversary. The anniversary was not observed at her residence which now belonged to Benazir Bhutto.
Her adopted son Din Mohammad Bhutto observed her 1st death anniversary at his residence where she usually lived. Quran Khuawni was held and then Langar was distributed.

Riaz Sohail

Riaz Sohail is a journalist and political analyst and had contributed in three languages i.e. [[Sindhi]], [[Urdu]] and [[English]].
He was born in [[Hyderabad]], got primary education at Model School [[Sindh University]] and then joined Sindh University, got masters’ degree in Sociology.

Presently, Riaz Sohail is working as correspondent with [[BBC Urdu]] online and Radio since 2003 at Karachi. Earlier he had been working as freelance contributor to BBC Urdu online for two years.
He started his career in journalism in 1994 with [[Daily Kawish]], a leading [[Sindhi]] newspaper.
He contributed over one hundred articles, features, investigative and in-depth reports to Kawish

He covered drought disaster in [[Thar]], cyclone- A in coastal areas which was much appreciated.
Riaz has also worked with [[Aurat Foundation]] a national level organisation working for women’s rights and violence against women
Riaz has also produced some remarkable documentaries on Mai Jando of [[Tando Bahawal]] case, [[Thar coal]] and some other cultural issues for [[KTN]].

== References ==
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2009/06/090624_hijra_marriage_zee.shtml
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2009/06/090617_sheedi_mela.shtml
* http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2Furdu%2Fpakistan%2F2009%2F07%2F090710_sana_case_update_rh.shtml&q=%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B6%20%D8%B3%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%84&tab=urdu&scope=urdu&start=4
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7250020.stm
* wordpress.com/tag/rama-pir/
* http://www.almotamar.net/en/2043.htm
* http://www.searchbox.no/tag/sindh-pakistanske.html
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/news/030713_sindhi_film_crisis_as.shtml
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/news/030813_doctor_bazaar_as.shtml
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/news/story/2003/09/030927_love_story_panoo_aqil_as.shtml

- Training Workshops & Surveys

- Training on Broadcasting journalism at BBC London Office
- !5 days BBC Training on Online Journalism at Karachi in 2001
- One week training on feature writing and Reporting at Islamabad in 2002
- 15 days Media Training Course arranged by Information Services Academy, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Islamabad.
- Participated in training workshops and seminars on ournalism, organized by Hyderabad Press Club Takhleeq Foundation, Aurat Foundation and other organizations
- Participated in workshop against Child sexual abuse organized by SAHIL
- Participated in five-day Rural Development, Skills Development workshop arranged by Pakistan Press Foundation.
- Participated in workshop on Media and ICTs arranged by IUCN
- Participated in seminar on WTO / TRIPS & Food Security arranged by Takhleeq Foundation
- Participated in workshop on Grass-root Democracy under Friedrich-Naumnn-Ftifung
- Attended and participated dozens of seminars on social, economic, political cultural and development topics.
- Covered visits of foreign dignitaries i.e. L.K Advani’s week long detailed visit of Pakistan, Visit of Jaswant Singh and others.
- Covered programmes and functions of Prime minister and other high officials.
- Assembly session coverage
Travel
- Vast travel experience within country From Kashmir to Northern areas, Balochistan, Thar and coastal belt.
- Also visited London

Sawan Faqir

Sawan Faqir
A classical [[Sindhi]] poet who use to recite peotry a tupical Sindhi form- "Bait". His "baits" were much in lentgth.

He was Khaskheli by caste and born in village Shahdad Khaskheli near Nindo Shaher now disrict [[Badin]] in 1875-1870. Sawn Faqir used to graze cattle in his village. During drought of Chhapno he left Badin area and went to village Fazal Khaskheli where he started working as peasant with Wadero Khabbar Odejo in [[Juddho]] area.

His wife and two brothers died due to cholra spread in 1918.
[[Maula Bux Khaskheli]], [[Sidiq Faqir]] of village Ghulam Hussain Jamali Taluka Badin, Bachayo Faqir Todo Faqir of [[Odero Lal]] were among his students.

Ali Kahn Korai, Hassan Faqir Hingoro, Taji Khan Chandio used to sung his "Bait". While among Alghozo players were Muso Khaskheli, resident of village Kandri, near Rajo Khanani, Hussain Khaskheli village Kandri, Khabbar Khaskheli ( blind person) resident of Seenhao taluka Tando Bago, Faqir Gulo Othari of Badin.

== Reference ==
* Dr Nabi Bux Baloch's article on Sawan Faqir
* Badin Magazine 2009

Maharaj Khushhal

Das Maharaj Khushhal Das was born in 1950 in village Bijr Khan Talpur near Tando Mohammed Khan. In childhood he used the make playing tools from clay mud. He got country wide recognition when he prepared a sculpture of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in 2007.which was presented to him through the then DCO Badin Agha Wasif Abbas. He has also prepared sculptures of Quaid Azam, Rajiv Gandhi, Lady Dianaand many others.

Now-a-day he lives in Pithoro, district Mirpurkhas. He is working with Lar Cultural Museum Badin. And preparing Benazir Bhutto, Dodo Chanesar and cultural view of Laar (Lower Sindh).

Maharaj Khushhal

Das Maharaj Khushhal Das was born in 1950 in village Bijr Khan Talpur near Tando Mohammed Khan. In childhood he used the make playing tools from clay mud. He got country wide recognition when he prepared a sculpture of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in 2007.which was presented to him through the then DCO Badin Agha Wasif Abbas. He has also prepared sculptures of Quaid Azam, Rajiv Gandhi, Lady Dianaand many others.

Now-a-day he lives in Pithoro, district Mirpurkhas. He is working with Lar Cultural Museum Badin. And preparing Benazir Bhutto, Dodo Chanesar and cultural view of Laar (Lower Sindh).

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Muhammad Ibrahim Arisar

Muhammad Ibrahim Arisar
Comrade Muhammad Ibrahim Arisar a senior journalist, editor of weekly Akhbar-e-Alam, and old PPP worker died due to cardiac arrest at RHC Dhoronaro here on Tuesday July 2009.
Journalist and one of the old PPP workers, Comrade Muhammad Ibrahim Arisar joined PPP at the time of its foundation.

During MRD movement he was detained at Central Jail Hyderabad, in 1992 he participated in long march from Lahore to Rawalpindi called by Benazir Bhutto against Nawaz Sharif regime where he was detained in Udhiala Jail. He served as taluka general secretary PPP Umerkot from 1985 to 1994. He remained committed to PPP till his last breath.
He published weekly Akhbar-e-Alam from Umerkot from 1995 to 2003.
He left five sons, four daughters and two wives to mourn his death. He was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Sadhar, district Umerkot.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

S. Memon

S. Memon a political activist of left wing.
He was born on 2.10.1956, in Diplo,district Tharparkar.
Education: MA from University of SIndh. S. Memon was rusticated by Great Sindhi Poet Shaikh Ayaz in 1978 from Sindh University.
He was active worker of Sindh National Students Federation, a student wing of Communist Party of Pakistan.
Later Exiled in Europe. Now a succesfull businessman.
Political Carrier Communist later Nationalist, . Position Holder and certified by Shaheed Nazir Abbasi as **BABA - E- WALL CHLking ***

Gul Agha

Gul Agha is one of the world's leading Computer Scientists.

Family

Dr. Agha was born in 1957. His paternal ancestors were from Shikarpur
and maternal ancestors were from Hyderabad. His father was a Civil
Servant, serving as District Magistrate at the time of partition, and
a poet. His mother was a physician, one of the first women in Sindh
to get her MBBS, at a time when the only medical college women in the
subcontinent could attend was in Delhi. Dr. Agha is married to
Jennifer Cole, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of
Illinois who has also written articles on Sindhi grammar, the
phonology of illiteration in Shah Latif's poetry, and developed
on-line material for learning Sindh. They have three daughters,
Leila, Eva and Sindha. Leila and Eva are doing their PhDs
respectively in Economics and Chemistry at top US universities.
Sindha is in High School and a creative artist who has already won
numerous US national awards for her stories, poetry and photography,
including two times Gold Medals for short fiction pieces from the US
Alliance for Young Writers which evaluates almost 50,000 entries each
year.

Education

Dr. Agha attended two years of primary school at the Habib Public
School in Karachi, then lived in Shikarpur for a couple of years where
he received private tutoring in Sindhi language and music. He then
attended a Sindhi medium middle School, Model School Hyderabad. He
did his Lower Secondary back at Habib Public School, and Higher
Secondary at Dayaram Jethmal Government Science College (DJ). He
stood second in the Karachi Higher Secondary Board exams in 1973, took
the American College Board tests, and was the first student from
Pakistan admitted to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
regarded as the most selective undergraduate university in the USA.
Having skipped two grades, at the age of 16, he was also among the
youngest to be admitted to that university. He was able to attend the
university only because of a full scholarship from the University,
covering all his expenses. He graduated with honors from Caltech, and
went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to do his PhD in
Psychology before deciding to switch to Computer Science. He obtained
a Master's degree in Psychology, and a Master's and PhD in Computer
and Communication Science from Michigan.

Professional Accomplishments

From 1983 to 1987, Dr. Agha taught at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), and from 1987 to 1989 at Yale University. He then
moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is
now Professor of Computer Science, and of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. He has also been a Visiting Professor at University of
Grenoble and at the University of Paris in France. Dr. Agha is one of
the pioneers in Programming Languages for Parallel and Distibuted
Computing. As of 2009, he had published over 175 research articles in
international journals, and received almost US$10 million in research
grants. His research has been cited in over 4,000 research articles.
Dr. Agha has lectured at dozens of international scientific
conferences and universities in 25 countries. He has supervised over
20 PhD dissertations, and many of his students are now professors at
leading research universities in US, Canada and Europe. Among them
are two Sindhi students, Nadeem Jamali who is now a professor in
Canada, and Sandeep Uttamchandani, who is now a research scientist at
IBM.

Awards and Honors

Dr. Agha is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society,
and a Member of the European Academy of Science. He served as
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Concurrency: Parallel, Distributed and Mobile
Computing (1994-98), and of the ACM Computing Surveys (1999-2007), the
most important cross-cutting journal in Computer Science. He has
received the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Computer Society,
a Recognition of Service Award from the Association for Computer
Machinary, IBM Faculty Fellow award, among many others.

Other Activities

Dr. Agha has been active in organizations promoting human rights, and
those promoting animal rights. While a 7th grader in Hyderabad,
Sindh, he organized students to protest against "One Unit" by wearing
badges. At Habib Public School and DJ Science College, he organized
Science Societies. An ethical vegetarian since childhood, he was a
founder of Vegetarian Societies in Ann Arbor and Boston. While living
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a leading center of biomedical research,
he successfully lobbied the City Council to pass what remain the
toughest regulations on animal research in the USA. Dr. Agha has been
active in promoting the rights of Sindhis, lobbying governments and
making presentations at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
(now the UN Human Rights Council). He has given numerous
presentations on Sindhi history and culture to different organizations
of the Sindhi Diaspora. Dr. Agha is recognized as having created the
first major blog in the Sindhi language which attracted thousands of
visitors. He has strongly advocated the use of Sindhi language for
Science education, delivering technical lectures entirely in Sindhi at
the Sukkur IBA. His other interests include Sufism. In a lecture on
Sufism and the Philosophy of Science, co-sponsored by the University
of Illinois Departments of Philosopy and Religious Studies, Dr. Agha
argued that while orthodox religions and science are in serious
conflict, sufism and science can be viewed as independent and
parallel.

SAIF BANVI

SAIF BANVI is poet, activist, and journalist
Full NAME is Mohammed Rahim (SaifBanvi)
born on 21st june, 1944,at Banno,(Thatta) Primary education at bannond secondry
education in Gvernment High School Thatta,Noor Mohd High School
Hyderabad nd D.C.High School Saeedpur near Talhar Distt Badin,9 at
that time it was distt hyderabad). Did matric in 1962 in second
division and appointedsecondry teacher in 1962. Served in various high
schools nd left the job1972. did two year of honours course in
english literature as a regular student at sindh universty jamshoro
1972 to 1974.
From 1974 to 1976 worked as manager wafai printing
press pakistan chowk Karachi, being the only sindhi press in Karachi
at that time.
In 1976 joined Daily Sindh News Hyderabad, as a
sub-editor under the editorship of Mr Shaikh Aziz. Since then have
been working in variuos urdu nd sindhi dalies.

Political affiliation with Communist Party of Pakistan and
off'shoots.
Joind SNSF in days of universty life. started poetry in
early age mid-50,I was used to compose poetry with the help nd
inspiration of my great father ,based on folk stories like SASSUI
PUNHO nd UMAR MARVE, nd present the same in regular meetings of
sindhi adabi sangat being held on every sundy in our school under the
guidance of our english teacher Late Saqi Sujamali who was a great
writter his own days. In mid-50 my poetry was published almost in
every issue of (ROOH REHAN) a literary magzine of that time, Now a
days work as a freelanc journalist. SAIF BANVI. CEL,0322-2027088.

Dr. Bahadur Dahiri

Dr. Bahadur Dahiri former MPA and politiican from Nawabshah ( Now Shaheed Benazir Bhutto abad) district. He is son of Raza Mohammed Dahiri. They have their own tribal influence in politics and social affairs.
He was born in Daulatpur, and his education is BA, LL.B, MBBS. By profession Dahiri is landlord / Politician.

He was elected MPA on ticket of PPP in 1993, but lost MPA seat on PML- Q ticket in 2002 and 2008.

Bedal Library Shiakrpur

Qadir Bux Bedal Library
Shikarpur once called Paris of SIndh, has remained centre of eductaion, trade and culture.
It has many historical places.
The Qadir Bux Bedal Library Shikarpur (Bedal Library ) is owned by Department of Culture and Tourism, Sindh of Government.

Established in 1883, earlier it was known as Jagan nas Library, the Hindu Sindhi who had donated his property to library. Later it was renamed as

The Library has five halls, four rooms. Each hall can accommodate over 100 students.

Annual Budget of the libarary is Rs 0.8 million, employing 24 persons.
At present library has 17, 000 books.
New books worth Rs 0.5 million were purchased in 2008-09

Generator has been approved twice but not delivered to this library by the culture department.
Culture Department handed over generators to libraries in Larkana, Khairpur and Hyderabad but oil was not provided to these, so generators laying there without use.

Recent Construction at Library: Rs 4 million were spent on constructions of new building.
Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh gave Rs 5 lacs from his MPA funds for additional room/hall construction. Rs 8 lacs funding comes from TMA Shikarpur. On average 300 to 500 students visit library daily, it also has Children section,
Separate reading hall for female is ready, soon to be started, its being delayed because separate washroom is under construction. Phone: 0726-920089

Aijaz Hussain Mahar

Aijaz Hussain Mahar is Islamabad based journalist. He hails from Ghotki Sindh.

Father’s Name: Ghulam Hussain Mahar.

Date of Birth as per my father’s diary : 6th December 1968, village Kamil Mahar District Shikarpur..

Date of Birth as per my school record: 01st January 1969, village Aarab Mahar District Ghotki Sindh.

Aijaz is married and have four kids including two sons and two daughters.

He lived in Karachi from 1982 to 1994 and possesses a domicile of Karachi. He is settled in Islamabad since June 1994 to date.

He has worked hard in his life to continue his education and come a long way of hardships to present position. Apparently he is very harsh in his attitude and behaviour but very soft hearted, caring, loving and sensitive in his nature. He likes folk music. He always remained very curious to know.

Family Back Ground:
Aijaz Mahar belongs to middle class family. His forefathers were from Shikarpur and before barrage system introduced in Sindh, his family owns a well and sixteen acres of Agricultural land in Shikarpur before partition. His father was the only person in village who has done his graduation from Sukkur in Sixtees and later on joined government service and retired as Section Officer. Due to tribal feuds his family migrated from Shikarpur to Ghotki Sindh in 1969.

Education :
Aijaz has completed his middle education from Govt. middle school (then) Lakho Lanjari District Ghotki and done his matriculation from Sindh Madressha tul Islam School Karachi in 1984.

He has done his intermediate and graduation in commerce from Sindh Muslim (SM) Commerce College Karachi through Karachi University in 1988 and 1992 respectively.

Aijaz has passed his masters exam in International Relations from Shah Latif University Khairpur Sindh in the first division.

Politics:
During his schooling he was associated with Democratic Student Federation and later on joined Jeay Sindh Student Federation for two years and associated himself with Sindh Sagar Student Federation from late 1995 to 1989.

Journalism:
He has joined journalism in mid 1989 and worked in different Sindhi and Urdu language newspapers in Karachi including daily Sindhi newspapers, Nao Sij, Al-Waheed, Kawish, and monthly Pireh. He also worked for Urdu language newspapers Intikhab and Nijat in Karachi.

Aijaz Mahar’s nick name was Baghi Mahar and he has joined journalism under his nick name until December 1992 when he resigned from Al-Waheed as News Editor. He has started to use his original name Aijaz Mahar when he joined a monthly magazine Pireh in the early 1993. He joined daily Kawish in early 1994 in Karachi as reporter and after five months he was transferred to Islamabad Bureau. He is considered to be the pioneer of the Sindhi Journalism/ Journalists in Islamabad.
At a time during his posting in Islamabad once Aijaz was writing for Sindhi, Urdu and English dailies simultaneously.

Aijaz Mahar was selected for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as reporter in early March 2004 and work to date with BBC as the Chief Reporter.

He has written more than two three articles about political, social and humanitarian issues, which were published in different English, Urdu and Sindhi newspapers. Many people believe that he has also introduced a trend of information based analytical columns in Sindhi journalism.

He has covered several local and international Assignments including Nepal’s Maoist armed struggle when they participated in elections, which they won and formed a government later. He has also covered historical US presidential elections in which the first time black man Obama elected as the president. He has also covered 52nd UN general assembly session in New York. He has also travelled in India to prepare a series about Sindhi Hindus who migrated at the time of partition to know how they are now in India and how they are associated with their ancient culture, for BBC Urdu service?.

International Seminars/ Conferences:
He has participated in several international seminars and conferences held in Colombo (Srilanka), Alamatay (Kazakistan), London (United Kingdom) and Washington (USA).

Foreign Visits:
Aijaz Mahar is a frequent visitor and so far he has visited four times USA, five times UK, three times Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Russia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bahrain, Switzerland, Turkey, Afghanistan and Muscat.

GHULAM QADIR CHANDIO

GHULAM QADIR CHANDIO is son of Punhal Khan Chandio who took active part in the MRD movement of 1983. His village is sitauted near Lakhat hwere 6 youths were killed during this movement.
Ghulam Qadir Chandio is acting president of PPP district Nawabshah now Benazirabad.
His Academic Qualifications is M.A.
Village Punhal Khan Chandio, P.O Sakrand, Distt. Nawabshah, Sindh.
TELEPHONE # (O) 0241-63302 (R) 0241-61588, 22295 021-8145200

Arisars

Muhammad Yaqoob Arisar
Name Muhammad Yaqoob Arisar S/O Muhammad Sawan Arisar

Place and date of birth: Village Haji Dilawar Arisar 09-09-1955

Primary: GPS Haji Dilawar in 1961 and Matric from GHS Pithoro in 1974

College: Oriental College Allam Palli 1975

BA Oriental College Allam Palli 1976

MA Sindhi: University of Sindh Jamshoro 1978-79

Presently serving as instructor in Sindhi language BPS-18 at Umerkot

He translated one book “ROOSI SAMRAJ ISLAMI DUNIA LAI CHELLANGE”
He composed his poetry on many issues.

Mir Hassan Arisar

Fathers Name Jan Muhammad

Place and date of birth: Village Sadhar 28-12-1968

Primary: Sadhar 1980

Matric: GHS Dhoronaro 1991

College: Oriental College Allam Palli 1993

BA Oriental College Allam Palli 1995

MA Sindhi: University of Sindh Jamshoro 2003

Presently serving as PST, at GPS Abdul Latif Bajir Umerkot

His three books had been published one of NAZAM and two of NASAR

He received awards for his services: 1. Khansahib Abdul Karim adabi
award from Old Boys Welfare Association Dhoronaro.
2. Soofi Adabi Award from Soofi Sadique Tehqiqi Board.
3. Sindh Adabi Forum from Balik Adabi Forum.
He remained script writer of KTN and Sindh Tv, he wrote many articles
for daily Ibrat and Daily Kawish.

Khairpur

Khairpur city known as Khairpur Mirs is in Sind province. It main production is dates, wheat and cotton. It is on main National highway and linked with main railway line. It has a big textile mill namely Khairpur Textile Mill, which is lying closed since last three decades are so. It has two sugar mills.
It has a big date market.
It is also home district of Pir Pagaro and Pir of Ranipur.
Before fifties the city was the capital of the former princely state of Khairpur. This state was founded in 1783 and merged
into Pakistan in 1955 when One Unit was created by merging all the provinces and states into West Pakistan.
The city is a cultural center with fine historic buildings, notably the Faiz Palace, and
with several colleges and a University called Shah Abdul Latif University.
The district has strong labour movement during KTM days.
This city has produced two chief ministers- i.e. Syed Qaim ALi Shah and Syed Ghaus Ali Shah.

Among prominent literary figures Dr Tanveer Abbasi, Naseem Kharal, Mansoor mirani

Mohammed Ismail Odhejo

Late Dr Mohammed Ismail Odhejo belong to Matli district Badin. He did his MMS from Liaquat Medical oollege (now medical university) Jamshoro. He was among those students leaders who participated in 4th March incident- the major event of SIndh students.
After completing MBBS he joined college and served there for over 12 years.
Basically he was left oriented, but joined Pakistan People Party. He was jailed during MRD movemnet and also took part in second phase of the movement which was launched in 1986.
He was elected MPA from PS– 49 (Badin) in 1988 general elections. He served as Sindh finance Minister from 02.05.1989 to 25.02.1990 when PPP governemnt was toppled by the then president Ghulam Isehaq Khan. He continued his struggle with PPP under leadership of Benazir Bhutto.
In 1993 when Benazir Bhutto launched long march from Lahore to Islamabad, he alongwith Faqir Mohammed Lashari and Jagdesh Malani was killed in road accidnet.

GHULAM RASOOL UNNAR

GHULAM RASOOL UNNAR

• Father’s Name: Haji Imam Ali Unnar (MLA)

• Date and Place of Birth: 1949/Khaddar Nawabshah

• Qualification: Matric
• Profession: Landlord/politician

Political background:

• Elected MPA on PPP ticket in 1977 and 1993.

• Elected MPA on PML-N ticket in 1997
• Remained advisor to Chief Minster Sindh twice.

• Remained Caretaker Minister for Forests in 2007.

• Brought forward his son Abdul Hafeez Unnar into politics due to condition of Graduation

• His son Abdul Hafeez Unnar lost MPA election on PML-Q ticket in 2002 and 2007.

• His son Abdul Hafeez Unnar died of cardiac arrest in 2008.

• He is presently attached with Mahar group of Ghotki District.

JAAN MOHAMMED BROHI

JAAN MOHAMMED BROHI

• Father’s Name: Haji Lal Mohammed Brohi

• Date and Place of birth: 1937/ Nawabshah

• Qualification: 8th Pass

• Profession: landlord/politician

Political background:

• Joined politics in 1962

• Elected councilor in BD elections in 1962

• Joined PPP in 1970

• Lost seat of MPA as an independent candidate in elections 1985

• joined NPP in 1986

• Left NPP in 1988 as he was not awarded MPA ticket and rejoined PPP

• MPA in 1988 on PPP ticket

• MPA in 1993 on PPP ticket

• Remained transport minister during 1995-96

• Elected MPA in 1997

• Left main stream politics due to condition of graduation

• Joined PML-Q and brought forward his son Eng Ali Nawaz Brohi who lost MPA elections in 2002 and 2007.

• His bother Khan Mohammed Brohi, remained member of zila council and Nazim UC Jhoro Sher.

• His younger brother Pir Bux also remained member of zila council.

Syed Baqadar Shah of Matiari

Syed Baqadar Shah of Matiari

Date of Birth: 3rd Rabi-us-Sani, 1310 Hijri, 1893.
Place of Birth: Matiari.
Early education: In those days, there was no any school, he got early education from a teacher named Pir Bux Memon, and also taught Holy Quran.
1st Marriage: 1914
2nd Marriage: 1938
Political Life: He was also a member of Sindh Assembly, during his time he worked hard for developments for Matiari, he got approval the making of roads, and Schools, He also got efforts for establishing a Radio Station near Matiari, which is exist today. He remained president of Municipal for many years.
He became Chairmen of District Local Board, at that time Chief Minister of Sindh, Mr.: Ayoub Khoro, with his efforts the budget was also increased.
He was very close to Bhutto’s family. When Mr.: Zulifqar Bhutto founded his separate political party. Baqadar Shah invited him and also arranged ceremony.
Pir Baqadar Shah did two marriages,
By 1st marriage he had one son Pir Mohammad Zaman Shah, (he is dead) Zaman Shah was politician, social worker, Zaman Shah has two sons one is Pir Irshad Shah (a retired WAPDA officer, he has also written the history of tier saints) and another is Pir Irfan Shah (he is Deputy Superintendent of Police)

2nd marriage:-
Pir Baqadar Shah had 3 daughters one son that is Pir Noor Shah (Ex-Member of Provincial Assembly) he has been very active in politics. Noor Shah has 4 sons,
1. Pir Sodhal Shah (Ex-Taluka Nazim Matiari)
2. Pir Ameer Shah (Present MPA)
3. Azhar Shah
4. Ghulam Mustafa Shah.
He was the 10th Sajjada Nasheen.
Date of Death: 7th Rabi-us-Sani, 1394 Hijri, 20th April 1975, at the age of 84 years.