LARKANA: Initial medical report of deceased Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM)  Chief Basheer Khan Qureshi revealed that he had died of poisoning and not natural causes, DawnNews reported.

According to sources Basheer Khan Qureshi suffered a cardiac arrest due to the ingestion of some poisonous food.

Moreover, sources said that the MLO Police Surgeon Dr Safiullah Abbasi who had headed the team that performed the autopsy on Basheer Qureshis body had compiled the initial report but the results of the report were being kept confidential.

Medical Superintendent of Chandka Medical Hospital Larkana, Ishtiaq Memon has said that the chemical examination report is being waited for and nothing can be said before the report is received.

Bashir Qureshi passed away on Friday night in Sakrand, Nawabshah. The Sindhi nationalist leader was laid to rest on Saturday in Rato Dero

The cause was his death was reported to be cardiac arrest but the party had rejected cardiac arrest as the cause of their chief’s demise, demanding a thorough investigation into his mysterious death.

Talking to journalists, central leader of JSQM Dr Kalani alleged that Mr Qureshi had been eliminated “scientifically by those who could not stomach the nationalist leader’s popularity which was demonstrated during a rally inKarachion March 23”.

A 40-day mourning period had been announced in Sindh.