Former Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain’s 80. died at the age of
Former Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain died here on Wednesday after a prolonged illness, according to his family and party leaders. He was 80 years old.
Hussain, who was born in Agra in 1940 and moved to Pakistan with his parents in 1947, served as the 12th President of Pakistan between September 2013 and September 2018.
Dawn newspaper quoted Chowdhary, additional general secretary of PML-N Sindh, as saying that the senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader was diagnosed with cancer in February last year and was treated at a private hospital here for a few days. was going on, where he breathed his last. Tariq says.
Expressing grief over Hussain’s death, President Alvi said that he shared the pain of his bereaved family.
PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif also expressed grief over Hussain’s death. “Today we have lost a valuable man who loved Pakistan and had a good character,” he was quoted as saying in a tweet from the account of the PML-N President.
“He was a trusted, loyal and ideological companion of Nawaz Sharif. He stood firmly with the party in all ups and downs. His services to the nation and the nation will be remembered for a long time,” Shahbaz said.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi tweeted: “My deepest condolences on the passing away of former Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain. May Allah give strength to his family to bear this great loss.”
A Karachi-based textile businessman, Hussain was associated with the Muslim League in the 70s and 80s and remained an active member of the PML-N from its early days.
He was the governor of Sindh from June to October 1999, when the then Pakistani army chief General Pervez Musharraf overthrew the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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