Former JI Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed passes away
06 January, 2013
ISLAMABAD: Former Ameer of Jamaat e Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmed has passed away here in the wee hours of Sunday, our sources reported. According to the details, Qazi Hussain Ahmed was suffering from heart and asthma disease. He was ill for the last three days and shifted to a private hospital in Islamabad. The funeral prayer of the veteran politician will be offered on Sunday at 3 PM in Jinnah Park, Peshawar. Qazi was born in 1938 in the house of Maulana Qazi Muhammad Abdul Rab at Ziarat Kaka Sahib, Distt. Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. After completing early education at home, Qazi Hussain Ahmad took admission in Islamia College, Peshawar and after that got his Masters of Science degree in Geography from Peshawar University. He served as lecturer for three years. His affiliation with the Islamic Movement started in his school days when he joined Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, Pakistan. He became member of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1970 and was elected to the office of President of its Peshawar branch. He served Jamaat-e-Islami as Secretary and then Ameer of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. He was raised to the office of Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan in 1978 and after elected as Ameer (Chief) of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan in 1987, continues to serve in that capacity, getting re-elected four more times (1992, 1994, 1999, 2003). In 2008, he excused to be elected once more and the members of his Party (Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan) elected Syed Munawwar Hassan as the new President of the Party. End.
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