LAHORE: Malik Anwar Ali Noon, a former member of National Assembly passed away on Friday in Lahore. He was 90.
Qul prayers for him will be held on Sunday at 3pm in Bhera. Noor twice served as a member of National Assembly. He was a founding member of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
After Noor retired from politics in the 1970s, his son, Amjad Ali Noor, inherited his mantle. Noor was related to former prime minister Feroz Khan Noon. He was friends Asghar Khan, Wali Khan, Mehmood Ali Kasuri, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, Balakh Sher Mazari, Ali Ahmed Talpur and Nawab Akbar Bugti.
He had studied at Aitchison College and Government College University.
He had received commission in the Indian Army in 1945 and served as the only Indian aide de camp to the Calcutta Governor. He returned to active service during the 1965 Pakistan-India War.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2014.
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