In condolence of: Zardari pays tribute to AR Siddiqui

"This is an unsubstantial world and every one must depart it when the time comes," says former PM.

KARACHI: Former president Asif Ali Zardari paid tribute to the former federal secretary and chairperson of Sindh Board of Revenue, A R Siddiqui, who died on Thursday after a short illness. In a condolence letter to the widowed wife, Ayesha Siddiqui , Zardari expressed his grief. He described AR Siddiqui as “a dedicated civil servant and a person of great integrity who performed his duties diligently and with devotion, without fear and refusing to succumb to undue pressures”. About the ultimate reality of death Mr. Asif Zardari said in his letter, “This is an unsubstantial world and every one must depart it when the time comes. Mr. A.R. Siddiqui also went the way everyone has to go”.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14^th, 2013.