ANP leader Piralizai dies

Published February 6, 2006

QUETTA, June 1: Awami National Party’s president for Balochistan Malik Sarwar Khan Piralizai died at age of 64 in the Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi, on Thursday.

He had been under treatment for liver problems for a few months.

A statement by the ANP said the body would be flown on Friday to Quetta and the late leader would be laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Piralizai village of Qila Abdullah.

ANP chief Senator Asfandyar Wali Khan and other leaders will attend the funeral.

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