Bilwal visits MPA Rubina Qaimkhani, offers condolences over son’s death

Author: Staff Report

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday visited party leader Rubina Qaimkhani to offer condolences over her son’s tragic death in a road accident.

Hamza, 16-year-old son of the former provincial minister and PPP MPA died in a road accident in Karachi on Friday.

The PPP chairman sympathised with Qaimkhani and praised her conviction for casting her vote in the Senate election in a state of deep grief as a democratic duty.

“The PPP is proud of brave and loyal women like Qaimkhani,” said Bilawal

Hamza Qaimkhani’s car overturned near Village Restaurant on Karachi’s Sea View Road due to speeding.

Qaimkhani was elected to the National Assembly as a PPP candidate on a seat reserved for women from Sindh in 2002. She was re-elected in 2008 and served as the federal parliamentary secretary for human rights during her second tenure as MNA. She was elected to the Sindh Assembly as a candidate of PPP in 2013. In July 2013, she became a member of the Sindh cabinet.

Published in Daily Times, March 6th 2018.

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