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| Saturday, December 11, 2010 |
( Late ) Rao Sikandar Iqbal
Rao Sikandar Iqbal was born in 1943. After his primry education in Queta, he joined Forman Christian college in Lahore. He did his LLB from Punjab University’s Law College, and also he was the Secretary General of the Students Union of the University,
In 1969, he joined the provincial revenue department as a Tehsildar. He resigned from service in 1975 and joined the PPP after meeting the late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. In 1988, Rao Sikandar Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, and served as Minister of Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives under (late ) Benazir Bhutto.
He lost the elections in 1990, but was elected again in 1993 and served as Minister of Sports, Culture and Tourism, on Bhutto's second term, that ended in 1996. He also served as chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defence.
He worked as the Punjab PPP chief from 1997 to 2001.
In 2002 Iqbal was elected to the National Assembly again and joined the group PPP-Patriots. He was inducted to the Federal Cabinet and served as Defence Minister between 2002 and 2007 under Prime Ministers Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Shaukat Aziz
Rao Sikandar Iqbal, who had been suffering from diabetes, was paralysed in 2007. Later, he suffered renal failure and needed dialysis. He was survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter. He was 68 year old when he died. His funeral prayers was offered at 5pm on Thursday in the city municipal stadium and he was buried in his native village. |
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He is one of the personality that stood for his people and country. These people are born once and no one can take place of them. I pray for his family that they stand for their people and nation just as their father did ....... may ALLAH ALMIGHTY give him highest place in JANNAT UL FIRDOUS......AMEEN
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He is one of the personality that stood for his people and country. These people are born once and no one can take place of them. I pray for his family that they stand for their people and nation just as their father did ....... may ALLAH ALMIGHTY give him highest place in JANNAT UL FIRDOUS......AMEEN