PPP issues ticket to party leader who died a year ago

KARACHI: Amid pressure to finalise candidates for polls as ECP deadline approached near, Pakistan People’s Party issued a ticket to party leader who passed away a year ago.

Pakistan People’s Party issued a ticket to Jam Bijar Khan Jokhio on PS-79 who died 12 months ago. It was Owais Jokhio, the son of the deceased politician, who had submitted an application to get the party ticket to contest upcoming General Elections 2018. But the party issued ticket to the leader who is no more alive.

Jam Bijar Khan, chieftain of the Jokhio tribe and a former member of the Sindh Assembly, passed away at the age of 85 in his native village in May last year, in Jam Goth, in Malir.

A number of tribal chiefs and politicians from across Sindh and Balochistan attended his funeral at Jam Goth. The ex-MPA was then buried at the historic Chawkandi graveyard.

Those who had attended his funeral included veteran Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Mengal and his son, former chief minister of Balochistan Sardar Akhtar Mengal; Sindh assembly members Sajid Jokhio, Haji Shafi Jamot and Sadiq Memon; members of Thatta’s Shirazi family including MNA Syed Ayaz Ali Shah Shirazi and Syed Shafqat Ali Shah Shirazi