KARACHI:
Former education minister of
Sindh Dr
Hamida Khuhro passed
away after protracted illness here on Sunday morning.
According to a news channel, she was laid to rest in Gizri graveyard. A historian, politician, professor and writer Dr
Hamida Khuhro twice served as provincial
minister for education. She was the daughter of Muhammad Ayub
Khuhro who served as
Sindh chief
minister before and after the creation of Pakistan.
She secured her PhD in South Asian history from the University of London and taught at Oxford University before she joined the
Sindh University Jamshoro as a professor. Being a prolific writer, she penned many books such as
Sindh Through the Centuries, Mohammed Ayub
Khuhro -- a life of courage in politics, The Making of Modern Sindh, British Policy and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century. She also co-authored Karachi Megacity of Our Times with Anwer Mooraj.
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