Jungshahi (June 08, 2018): Veteran politician, renowned writer and great philosopher Rasool Bux Palejo laid to rest in the presence of his thousands of followers in his ancestral graveyard in Jungshahi today.
Thousands gathered to offer the funeral prayers of the towering nationalist political icon. His coffin was carried by female and male workers of Awami Tehreek – the party he founded in 1970s.
During the burial procedure, workers of Sindhiyani Tehreek – a movement by Sindh’s woman to fight discriminatory laws in 1980s – paid tribute to Palijo by singing anthem eulogising outside the graveyard.
The funeral was attended by a large number of politicians, nationalist leaders, literary artists, lawyers, educationists and journalists. His last rites were offered by son Ayaz Latif Palijo, who is the general secretary of Grand Democratic Alliance.
He was died early Thursday morning, after a prolonged illness at the age of 88.
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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.
