KARACHI: Senior PPP chief and Senator Taj Haider breathed his final on Tuesday in a Karachi hospital after battling most cancers, the celebration and household confirmed. He was 83 years of age.
In a submit on Fb, his spouse Naheed Wasi confirmed his dying, saying particulars of the funeral could be supplied later.
Nazakat Ali, Haider’s employees director, stated the senator was admitted to Karachi’s Ziauddin Hospital’s intensive care unit for the final two days.
Haider served as a senator for the celebration from March 2012-2018 and was presently once more serving within the place from March 2021-2027. He was chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Guidelines of Process and Privileges and the PPP’s central secretary basic.
President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his grief over the dying and paid tribute to the deceased’s providers to the PPP and democracy.
“Taj Haider was an asset to the celebration and was one of many ideological staff of the PPP. With the demise of Taj Haider, the PPP Celebration has misplaced an essential political chief,” the president was quoted as saying in an announcement.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari stated that Haider’s decades-long political, social and literary providers “won’t ever be forgotten”, including that the PPP chief was a dignified determine of tradition and politeness.
“He was a inventive thoughts,” Bilawal stated. He stated that Haider’s wrestle and sacrifices for democracy had been a beacon for the brand new technology.
“Taj Haider was an emblem of conscientiousness and mind in Pakistani politics,” he stated, including that the chief’s demise prompted deep sorrow and shock to the celebration.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah additionally expressed grief over the dying.
“The dying of the deceased has deeply shocked all the employees, together with myself,” CM Shah stated, including that the dying was an irreparable loss which couldn’t be compensated.
“Taj Haider was a wise, considerate and decided political chief,” CM Shah stated. “Taj Haider at all times struggled for democracy and public service,” he stated, including that he shared the grief of the deceased’s household.
Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tesori prolonged his condolences on the PPP senator’s passing, saying that his political and public providers would at all times be remembered.
“Might Allah grant the deceased a excessive place in Paradise and grant persistence to the bereaved household,” he stated, in response to an announcement from the chief minister.
The Human Rights Fee of Pakistan praised him as “among the many few politicians who stood uncompromisingly for financial justice, cultural rights and democratic governance within the nation”.
PPP Senator Sherry Rehman stated the deceased was an asset to the celebration and that his providers would at all times be remembered.
“The deceased was a real soldier of democracy, a spiritual and a real man of information and motion,” she stated.
He rendered invaluable providers to democracy, Pakistan, Sindh’s rights and the welfare of the folks, Rehman stated.
PML-N Senator Afnanullah Khan additionally supplied nicely needs for the deceased in a submit on X.