Ailing health: Sobho Gianchandani moves to Karachi

LARKANA: Comrade Sobho Gianchandani, 94, was shifted to a private hospital in Karachi for treatment. He had been suffering from high fever for a week. Pakistan Peoples Party patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari took notice of his illness after media reports and directed the party leaders to inquire about his health. Later, a ventilator-equipped ambulance of Chandka Medical College Hospital was sent to him along with a doctor, Hola Ram, which took him to Karachi. He is a renowned writer, intellectual and politician, and is also known as the ‘Man of Mohenjo Daro’. Gianchandani is amongst the few Hindu intellectuals who refused to migrate to India after partition.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 9^th, 2014.