Karachi: Senior PPP leader and Provincial Minister for Planning and Development Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani and his wife Fareeha Razaq were found dead in their home in Defence Khayaban-e-Shasher.
Media reports quoting family sources said that firing voice was heard before the tragic incident but the cause of death is yet to be ascertained.
The bodies were recovered after breaking down door of their room. Sources said Bijarani’s son, MNA Mir Shabbir Ali Bijarani, was at Bilawal House for a meeting when he was informed about the incident. The veteran politician has served several times as federal and provincial minister during the tenures of PPP. He was provincial law maker, elected from Kashmore. He was also Provincial Minister for Planning and Development. Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani was politically near to slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto. He was also former Federal Minister.
Bijarani was elected from the PS-16 constituency of Jacobabad-Kashmore and has remained an MNA and senator.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal and several other party leaders and workers have also reached at Meer Hazar Khan Bajarani Residence.According to Police, it can be a suicide case.
Shutter down has been announced in the native town of Meer Hazar Khan Bajarani. Although Federal Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was in the city on Thursday but neither he gave any statement related to this incident nor visited the Hazar Khan Bajarani house till filing of this news.
According to sources, the senior PPP minister committed suicide allegedly after killing his wife. PPP leader Nasir Hussain Shah said the preliminary investigation shows that both were shot in the head. He said there was no sign of stress on Bijrani’s face when he attended the cabinet meeting yesterday (Wednesday). “He (Hazar Bijrani) was not that person who would commit suicide,” Shah said
Facts would be unearthed only after the investigation and exemplary punishment will be given if any person found involved in this incident, he warned. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has announced three day mourning in connection with sudden and sad death of Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani. No political activity will beheld during the said days.
Meer Hazar Khan Bijarani was an MPA in current Sindh Assembly, whose tenure spans from the year 2013 till date. He belongs to constituency PS-16 Jacobabad-Cum-Kashmore-I (Old Jacobabad-IV). He was a senior politician among the ranks of mainstream, liberal and democratic party, Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians.
Currently, he was serving as minister of Works and Services and a Member of Committee on Government Assurances before his murder. He was a learned man who also served at official positions previously.
He was elected as a Member of National Assembly of Pakistan in 1990/1997, he has also served as Member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh in 1974, 1977 and 2013, he also served as a Senator in the year 1988.Mr. Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani is an academically qualified person, who has achieved the degree in Master of Arts in Political Science and Bachelors of Law from Sindh Muslim Law College and Bachelors of Arts from National College Karachi. He was born in Karampur (Sindh) on 10th July 1946.
