PPP’s MPA-elect passes away

DADU: The Pakistan Peoples Party’s newly-elected member of Sindh Assembly, Abdul Aziz Junejo, who won PS-80 (Khairpur Nathan Shah) on Feb 8, passed away at a private hospital in Karachi on Tuesday. He was 63 and a cancer patient.

Late Junejo’s body was brought to his native village where he was buried in ancestral graveyard after funeral prayers.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2024

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