Former President of Pakistan Manoon Hussain succumbed to cancer and passed away in Karachi at the on Wednesday night.
Manoon Hussain who served as the 12th President of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018, was suffering from cancer which was diagnosed in February 2020 last year. The Ex-President was admitted in a private hospital since past two weeks.
However, he succumbed to the novel disease and passed away on Wednesday night at the age of 80.
Originally a businessman, Mamnoon Hussain was born on December 23, 1940, in the Indian city of Agra. He had started his political career as a Muslim Leaguer in 1969. At the time, he was made the joint secretary of the Karachi chapter of the League when former minister of state for foreign affairs Zain Noorani was its president.
The deceased had earned an MBA degree from the prestigious Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi.
He was actively involved in the PML-N since 1993 when Nawaz Sharif was in the Opposition. Before Hussain was appointed as the governor of Sindh by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999 to serve in this position for less than six months, he worked as an advisor to the provincial chief minister (Liaquat Ali Jatoi) for an insignificant portfolio.
Condolences poured in from fellow politicians following Mamnoon Hussain’s demise. President Arif Alvi, FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and others politicians took to social media to extend their condolences to Hussain’s family.
COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa also ‘expressed heartfelt condolences’ on the sad demise of former President Mamnoon Hussain, reported ISPR.