Deputy Chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Karachi and former member of Sindh Assembly, Nasrullah Shajeeh, drowned in River Kunnar on Monday. According to a JI spokesman, the deceased was leading a students' group to Balakot. At about noon, one of the students slipped into the river while performing ablution and the JI leader jumped into the river in an attempt to save the young man.
However, the water current carried them away. Efforts were on to search out their bodies. Chief of JI Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, former chief Syed Munawar Hassan, and other senior leaders of the party have expressed deep grief and sorrow over the martyrdom both of them. They said that the JI leader had devoted his life for the cause of Islam and had attained martyrdom while attempting to save a life.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2014

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