LARKANA, June 28 Nawab Shabbir Ahmed Chandio, the chief of Chandio tribe and district nazim of Qambar-Shahdadkot, died after protracted illness in a Karachi hospital on Sunday. He was 61.

He leaves behind wife, three sons and two daughters and wife.

Sardar Khan Chandio, the son of Nawab Shabir Ahmed Chandio, told Dawn said that the Nawab would be laid to rest in Ghaibidero graveyard on Monday at around 1 pm.

In 1995, he received severe spinal card injury while hunting in Kheerthar mountains which resulted into paralysis of lower part of his body. He remained restricted to wheelchair since then.

He successfully contested general elections in 1990, 1993 and 1997 as a Pakistan People's candidate for Qambar's National Assembly seat against Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, Ghinwa Bhutto and his father Ahmed Sultan Chandio.

He remained in the PPP for 27 years but quit it after the introduction of district government system in 2001 when the PPP leadership preferred Khursheed Junejo over him for the post of Larkana district nazim.—BoC