LARKANA: Khuda Bakhsh Soomro, the father of former Sindh law minister MNA Ayaz Soomro, was laid to rest in the family’s ancestral graveyard in Shahdadkot on Tuesday. K.B. Soomro died in a Karachi hospital late on Monday night after a long illness. He was 90. The body was transported to Larkana and the funeral took place in Wakeel Colony.

The commissioner, deputy commissioner, DIG and senior district and police officials, a large number of political figures and lawyers attended the funeral.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2015

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