LAHORE, March 8: PPP leader Khalid Ghurki died of a renal failure here on Tuesday. He was about 60.
Husband of Federal Environment Minister Samina Ghurki, Khalid had been under treatment at Sheikh Zayed Hospital for the last several months where he breathed his last on Tuesday.
His funeral will be held in Defence Phase-V Mosque at 11am on Wednesday (today) and he will be laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Ghurki village, Wagah.
Belonging to a known political family of Lahore, Khalid was elected the Pakistan People's Party Lahore chapter president in 1989. He was elected MNA in 1993 on the a PPP ticket from Eastern Lahore and subsequently was made parliamentary secretary for railways. He also worked as Wagah Town nazim.
After developing medical complications a few years ago, his wife replaced him in the political arena and made it to the National Assembly in the 2008 general elections on PPP platform. His nephew, Farooq Ghurki, was a minister in the Shahbaz Sharif cabinet till the latter parted ways with the PPP last month.
Khalid has left behind a widow, two sons and as many daughters.
PPP leaders Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, Samiullah Khan, Chaudhry Manzoor, Raja Riaz, Asif Hashmi, Haider Zaman Qureshi, Dr Fakharuddin, Aurengzeb Burki, Dr Hasnat Shah, Usman Malik, Iqbal Sialvi, Samiullah Durani, Ehsan Gunjial and Khwaja Rizwan expressed their condolences with the bereaved family.
Meanwhile, the PPP Punjab parliamentary meeting scheduled for Tuesday at Presidency was also called off owing to the death of Ghurki.
