Karachi (June 07, 2018): Chairman PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Former CM Sindh and other political leaders have expressed grief over the demise of veteran politician, renowned intellectual Rasool Bux Palejo and prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul.
According to the details, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari showed his grief over the sad demise of Rasool Bux Palejo and said that Sindh has lost an important historian today.
Former CM Sindh, Murad Ali Shah also showed his grief over the demise of Palejo and prayed for the bereaved family, Sindh is deprived of a senior political leader, intellectual and historian.
Caretaker CM Sindh, Fazalur Rehman also expressed his woe over the demise of Rasool Bux Palejo.
Earlier today, veteran politician Rasool Bux Palijo passed away early morning, after a prolonged illness at the age of 88.
He will be laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard of Jungshahi.
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Born on February 21, 1930, in the village of Mungar Khan Palijo, Jungshahi, Thatta, Palijo was a writer and also served as a lawyer of the Supreme Court.
He received his early education in the village while he enrolled in Sindh Madressatul Islam in Karachi for his secondary education, where he was graduated with a law degree.
He was also multilingual with command over not only Sindhi, but also Urdu, and English languages, and later became conversant in Hindi, Arabic, Balochi, Bengali, Siraiki, Punjabi and Persian.
He formed the Awaami Tahreek Party in 1970 and is also considered to be a founding member of the Awami National Party, Sindh Qaumi Ittehad and Sindhi Adabi Sangat, he also led the movement of MRD against Ziaul Haq dictatorship.
He also worked towards the demolition of one-unit and was involved in various other political activities. He was also very active in bringing women into the political circle in Sindh. 
The veteran politician also spent 11 years of his political life in various prisons, with most of his prisoner life, spent in Kot Lakhpat jail, Punjab during 1980.
He is the author of more than 40 books on numerous subjects, with 26 of them being in the Sindhi language. His topics range from literature to politics, prison dairies, culture and poetry etc.
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