NEW YORK: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Member of National Assembly Mu
hammad Ayaz Soomro passed away in New York on Monday after a protracted illness.
The lawmaker, 59, breathed his last at a hospital in New York, where he was under
treatment for a serious heart ailment for some days.
He had been undergoing
treatment at Karachi’s National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases before he was moved
to the United States for further
treatment some 20 days ago.
Mu
hammad Ayaz Soomro was elected on the National Assembly seat in Larkana on a ticket of the PPP in 2013. Before being elevated
to the NA in 2013, he remained Minister for Law & Parliamentary Affairs in the previous five-year stint of the PPP government in Sindh.
Published in Daily Times, March 2
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