MNA Munir Khan Orakzai passes away
Staff Reporters
Karachi/Peshawar
Sindh Minister for Human Settlement Ghulam Murtaza Baloch on Tuesday died of coronavirus after being admitted to a hospital in Karachi. According to relatives of the deceased minister, Ghulam Murtaza Baloch remained admitted at a private hospital for past few days before he lost his battle against coronavirus on Tuesday. Ghulam Murtaza Baloch has tested positive for the novel coronavirus on May 14. Talking to journalists, Ghulam Murtaza said,” As I started showing symptoms, I got tested for COVID-19 and the results came back positive today.” The minister maintained that he was in self-isolation at his home. He is the first provincial minister or lawmaker who died while battling the virus as at least 12 lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly has tested positive for the virus after they underwent a screening process before the Sindh Assembly session on June 03. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker in the Sindh Assembly Shahnawaz Jadoon on Sunday tested positive for coronavirus. The fresh cases among the provincial lawmakers have raised the tally of total infected members since the outbreak of the virus to 12. Two lawmakers of the Sindh Assembly on Saturday tested positive for coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Munir Khan Orakzai passed away from heart failure in Kurram on Tuesday, just days after the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) lawmaker had recovered from the coronavirus, according to his family.
Irfanullah Khan Orakzai, the deceased lawmaker’s nephew, said his uncle had tested positive for the coronavirus in April but made a full recovery and last tested negative on May 8. Irfanullah said when the family tried to wake Munir up for morning prayers, he did not respond, upon which he was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
