Inna lillah i inna Alaihi rajeoon…according to the latest news from Geo TV, Nawabzada Nasrullah who had a heart attack yesterday, has passed away…
Inna lillahee wa inna ilaehee rajiooon!!
May Allah rest his soul in peace.
Yesterday, on PTV news they were showing PM Jamali visiting him in the hospital... and today he died??
Ina Lillah Wa Ina-Illaihai Rajiun
Nawabzada was a tireless proponent of democracy and wasted no opportunity to cobble together a coalition of disparate political parties to oppose the government.
Reported by Sept 27 edition of Daily Nawaiwaqt
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A great politician has died... He was a true fighter, and throughout his career he was always part of the grand alliances for the restoration of democracies, and led with an example. Hes one of the few politicans whose property and estate after partition continued to decrease. From the MRD (during the times of the dictator Zia) to the ARD, he has stood for his confidence in democracy, and may Allah grant his wish and bless Pakistan with a true democracy.
Ameen!...
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A great politician has died... He was a true fighter, and throughout his career he was always part of the grand alliances for the restoration of democracies, and led with an example. Hes one of the few politicans whose property and estate after partition continued to decrease. From the MRD (during the times of the dictator Zia) to the ARD, he has stood for his confidence in democracy, and may Allah grant his wish and bless Pakistan with a true democracy.
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Inna Lillah Wa Inna Illahai Rajoun
Pakistan has lost a true democrat.
Inna Lillah Wa Inna Illahai Rajoun
May his soul rest in peace.
it was quite a shock to hear of his demise this morning. He was quite active and his health seemed ok even at the age of 85. He must've been pretty fine until afew days ago; he travelled from lahore to Islamabad to attend an ARD moot on tue/wed and had a heart attack on thurs, since then he was in the CCU at the Al-Shifa hospital in Isbd where he died during very early saturday morn.
He did work very hard and always remained an opposition man, maybe he seeked perfection. May Allah bless his soul and may his good intentionms for Pakistan, whatever they may have been, come true and reward him in the next life.
His political career spanned 7 decades!! He was the stalwart of democracy, and got arrested numerous times during the martial laws.
A short profile on the man:
Crusader for democracy
In the death of Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the nation has lost a formidable fighter for a democratic dispensation in the country. Very few people differed over Nawabzada’s abilities to cobble together united fronts against the worst of autocrats. From Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) against General Ziaul Haq to the present-day Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, the feudal lord from Khangarh (Muzaffargarh) in Punjab had masterminded successful political uprisings against arrogant national rulers and thus become a virtual pain in the neck for his rivals. Belonging to the Babar tribe of Multani Pathans that settled in Khangarh in the late 18th century, politics was in Nasrullah Khan’s blood. With his family elders being in Sir Fazal Hussain’s Unionist Party, he asserted his democratic instincts way back in 1933 while still a student by staging a rebellion against the family traditions and joining the Ahrar Party. After independence he switched over to Muslim League and gave a tough time to Iskander Mirza. The peak period of his political struggle was in 1962 when he formed the National Democratic Front and became a member of the National Assembly. He retained his status as an MNA in the subsequent polls held in 1977, 1988 and in 1993 when he became the head of Benazir Bhutto’s Kashmir Committee. In the1965 elections, he supported Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah against General Ayub Khan later forming a Democratic Action Committee against the Field Marshal. His Nicholson Road residence in Lahore had for many generations been a training academy for devoted, uncompromising and daring political workers. For half a century of the post-independence era, Nawabzada had been a daymare for over-ambitious military or civilian rulers. Even when age and illness had reduced him to an infirm skeleton, stalwarts of the contemporary political opposition reposed their full trust into him and accepted him as the head of the ARD.
Out of his five sons and three daughters, if anyone carries a remote extension of the democracy man it is probably Mansoor Ali Khan who briefly remained Punjab’s revenue minister. With a sharp wit and an extensive study of history and literature, he could electrify the mammoth political rallies, enliven the dull parliamentary proceedings and illuminate insipid table talks among senior colleagues. History will rate him highly whenever a dispassionate analysis of his democratic credentials is made
May Allah grant him a place in Jannat. Amen.