MQM leader Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari on ventilator support

KARACHI:

A senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and former MPA, Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, was admitted on Friday to a hospital after his health condition deteriorated.

According to the party spokesperson, Bukhari is on the ventilator at Ziauddin Hospital, as he is suffering from multiple ailments. "Being a senior lawyer, he dealt with legal issues and matters of the party," said MQM spokesperson Aminul Haque.

Over 70 years of age, Bukhari is regarded as an old worker of the MQM. He joined the MQM in the late 1980s and has served as the MQM deputy parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly. He was also the former planning and development, and labour minister.



Between 2008 and 2013, along with being a member of the Sindh Assembly he also became the minister of Bureau of Supply and Prices. During the 2013 elections, he was not awarded a ticket by the party due to his health, said Haque.

In the MQM, Bukhari served as a member of the party's legal aid committee and a member of the Rabita Committee.



Meanwhile, the Rabita Committee visited him in the hospital, and its convener Nadeem Nusrat and MQM chief Altaf Hussain have expressed concern over his health and asked workers to pray for him.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2016.