KARACHI: PPP leader Fauzia Wahab passed away at a Karachi hospital today (Sunday). She was 56. PPP leader Waqar Mehdi has confirmed that Fauzia Wahab is no more. She had been hospitalized since May 24.
Mehdi said that her funeral prayers would be offered at Mubarak Mosque in Sew View, Karachi, after Zohr prayers on Monday. PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif, MQM chief Altaf Hussain, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Raza Haroon, Babar Awan, Agha Siraj Durrani, Ayaz Soomro, Manzoor Wasan and other politicians expressed profound grief at Fauzia Wahab’s demise.
She was a member of National Assembly from Sindh returned on a reserved seat for women after the February 18, 2008 general elections. Fauzia Wahab was appointed as the new central Information Secretary of the Pakistan Peoples Party in place of Sherry Rehman on March 18, 2009.
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