KARACHI: Rasool Bux Palijo’s wife and well-known artiste Zarina Baloch has been admitted to a Karachi hospital. She has been diagnosed with brain tumour and a liver disease.

Zarina Baloch worked in several TV dramas and serials including Rani Ji Kahani, Jhungal, Karwan, Guddi, Chand Raheen Tho Door, Kedo Karoonbhar (written by her), Anna, Banhi and Baleshahi.

She has been conferred with Shah Latif, Sachal, Shahbaz, the Sindh Graduates Association, Sindhi Association of North America and World Sindh Congress awards.

The people of Sindh have different introductions of this accomplished woman.

They knew her as a kind teacher, a folk ace, story writer, virtuoso actress, an advocate of women rights and political activist.

She participated in protest against One Unit and the Movement for Restoration of Democracy.

Until recently, she along with Mr Palijo was in the forefront of movements against Kalabagh dam, Thal canal and other anti-Sindh projects.

She remained in Sukkur, Karachi and Hyderabad jails for two years in General Zia’s martial law.

Ms Baloch actively worked along side her husband for the rights of peasants and women in the countryside where people virtually remain imprisoned, enslaved and in chains due to illiteracy.

She represented women in an international women’s conference in Moscow.

Though she is a wife of a political leader but her unmatched adore for the soil earned her cachet among all political groups and literary circles of Sindh.—Manzoor Chandio