Transitions: Balochistan local govt minister passes away

The minister was initially a member of the original JUI.

QUETTA:


Balochistan Minister for Local Government Abdul Khaliq Bashar Dost died of a cardiac arrest on Monday. A previous accident had left the minister disabled and he was confined to a wheelchair.



Dost was elected in the 2008 elections as a member of the Balochistan Assembly, from a seat in a Zhob constituency, on a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Nazriyati ticket. The minister was initially a member of the original JUI, but later on joined the breakaway faction, defeating Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani, for a seat in the provincial assembly.

Being the only member of his party in the assembly, he joined hands with Awami National Party’s three-member group and became the local government minister.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2012.
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