Payout: PPP gives cash to jiyala’s widow

KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party’s chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced Rs100,000 to the widow of a PPP worker from Badin, Abdul Razaque Ansari.

Ansari was the PPP’s ex-vice president for Badin city and had set himself on fire on May 1 after not being paid for four months by the Mirza Sugar Mill, where he used to work as a labourer. He succumbed to his injuries on May 7.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 11^th, 2012.