Deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Suri tests positive for COVID-19
Pakistan
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri. Photo: Geo.tv
ISLAMABAD: The Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri on Wednesday announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
The deputy speaker, in a tweet, wrote that his COVID-19 test came out positive.
The speaker said that he suffered from a mild fever, accompanied by a headache, for the last two or three days.
Suri asked people to pray for him and also urged the masses to take the third wave of the pandemic seriously.
Karachi
March 8, 2021
Qasim Jan, a veteran politician and Awami National Party Karachi chapter’s former president, passed away on Sunday at a hospital where he was being treated for cancer.
Jan also remained Sindh president of the Pashtun Students Federation and a founding member of the United Students Federation during his student life in the 1980s.
He had closely worked with Bacha Khan, Wali Khan and Sardar Sherbaz Mazari on the platform of the PkSF, the ANP and the National Democratic Party, and played an active role against the dictatorship of Ziaul Haq.
In the ANP, he had served in the positions of Karachi president and provincial labour secretary. After developing differences with the ANP leadership, he had formed the Pashtun Thinkers Forum, a Karachi-based literary and political forum, and organised several events at the Arts Council of Pakistan.
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