NEW YORK: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Member of National Assembly Muhammad Ayaz Soomro passed away in New York on Monday after a protracted illness.
The lawmak
er, 59, breathed his last at a hospital in New York, where he was under treatment for a serious heart ailment for some
days.
He had been undergoing treatment at Karachi’s National Institute of Ca
rdiovascular Diseases before he was moved to the United Sta
tes for further treatment some 20 days ago.
Muhammad Ayaz Soomro was elected on the National Assembly seat in Larkana on a ticket of the
PPP in 2013. Before being elevated to the NA in 2013, he remained Minister for Law & Parliamentary Affairs in the previous five-year stint of the
PPP government in Sindh.
Published in Daily Times, March 21st 2018.