Comrade Sobho Gayanchandani Memorial Committee Karachi will organise a reference to remember Comrade Sobho at Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi on Sunday. Friends and members of Pakistan's labour movement would attend in a large number, said a statement on Friday.
Senator Raza Rabbani, senior lawyer Abid Hassan Manto, Secretary General of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan I. A. Rehman, Director, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi, Dr Jaffar Ahmed, writer Zahida Hina, poetess Fehmida Riaz, intellectuals Muslim Shamim, Mazhar Jameel, Fatah Malik, Imdad Qazi, Karamat Ali, Amanullah Shaikh, Imdad Hussain, Mohammad Ali Pathan, Nirmal Gayanchandani and others would speak on the occasion. The speakers would discuss various aspects of life of Comrade Sobho and pay him tribute for his contribution in creating awareness among the working classes. Sobho died on December 8, 2014 at his ancestral village in Larkana district at the age of 94.
An Urdu translation of Sobho Gayanchandani's autobiography, published by Ahbab-e-Kidney Foundation would also be launched on the occasion. Senior choreographer and dance performer Sheema Kermani would present a cultural performance on the poetry of Shaikh Ayaz, Rabindarnath Tagore and Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. A Pashto poet Sabir Ahmed would also perform on the occasion.
The Comrade Sobho Gayanchandani Memorial Committee Karachi is comprised of Progressive Writers Movement, Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, Ahbab-e-Kidney Foundation, Irtiqa Institute of Social sciences, International Youth and Worker Movement, IUF Pakistan, SM Sohail Trust, All Pakistan Trade Union Organisation, Aurat Foundation, Awami Workers Party, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and other organisations and institutes.
Sobho was a known writer, poet and journalist and contributed in a number of Sindhi dailies and other journals all through his life. Comrade Sobho was twice elected to the Sindh provincial committee of the Communist Party and was a member of the Central Committee many a times.
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