SUKKUR: The 77th death anniversary of Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi known as Soreh Badshah (freedom fighter) was observed here by the activists of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), said a press release on Monday.

Speakers paid glowing tributes to Soreh Badshah who was hanged to death on March 20, 1943. Neither lucrative offers nor repressive measures of the colonial powers could distract him from his mission, they said.

Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi, Pir Pagaro the sixth, was the spiritual leader of the Hur Movement during Sindh’s independence struggle against the British colonial rule, they added. Riaz Junejo, Arbaz Abbasi and others said Soreh Badshah’s slogan for life was “country or coffin” and “independence or death”, which showed his character, they added.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2020