PPP leader Fauzia Wahab was laid to rest in Karachi’s Gizri graveyard on Monday after her funeral prayer was held at Sultan Masjid in Defence. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik, federal and provincial ministers and other lawmakers from different political parties attended the prayer.
She passed away on Sunday after fighting complications arising out of successive surgeries for the past three weeks.
Fauzia, 56, a PPP MNA and special secretary at the Presidency, had started her political career in 1979 when she contested local body election on a PPP ticket.
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had nominated Fauzia Wahab as information secretary of the PPP women’s wing in Sindh. In 1997 general elections, she was nominated to contest the elections on NA-193‚ as a PPP candidate.
In 1998‚ Benazir nominated Fauzia as the Central Coordinator of the Human Rights Cell and was tasked with corresponding with human rights defending organizations abroad. She was also a senior member of the finance committee of the National Assembly that looked after the budget of the assembly. She leaves behind her husband, three sons and a daughter.
Interior Adviser Rehman Malik later expressed sympathy with the family of Fauzia.
He said an investigation would be conducted to ascertain reasons of the demise of Fauzia Wahab.
