KARACHI: Jamaluddin Naqvi (known as Jamal Naqvi) of the Karachi group of Communist Party of Pakistan passed away on Thursday morning after protracted illness. He was 85.
He joined the party in mid 1950’s and assumed all important posts in the party. Later he ran his own faction of the party like a sole rider till late 1980’s when he left the CPP on ideological grounds.
His autobiographical account has been published recently under the title Leaving the Left Behind, which is self-explanatory.
Naqvi gave his entire life and career to progressive thoughts and spent many years in prison for the cause but when he amended his ideological thoughts, he was discarded.
He came to Pakistan in 1949 and did his graduation from Islamia College Karachi and got a chance to listen to lectures of M.H. Askari, Mustafa Zaidi and Professor Karrar Hussain. Here he joined DSF which was formed in 1948 at Lahore, a fact often denied by some of the left circles in the past.
Published in Daily Times, August 4th 2017.