Agha Javed Pathan
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Dr. Agha Javed Pathan | |
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Born | Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences , Jamshoro | May 4, 1972
Occupation(s) | Chairman, Pakistan Medical & Dental Association |
Agha Javed Pathan (Urdu: آغا جاوید پٹھان ) was a political activist from Sindh, Pakistan, who practiced as a doctor in Karachi. He was accused of throwing a shoe at Arbab Ghulam Rahim (former Chief Minister of Sindh Province) in April 2008. He was accused of hitting Arbab during his first visit to Sindh Assembly after the 2008 general election . Later Agha Javed was arrested and subsequently released[1] due to a lack of evidence. He died on 4 November 2018 from a road accident in Karachi.
Biography
Dr. Agha Javed, a
Political activities
- Raised awareness of the targeted killing of doctors in Karachi in 1999 as the Chairman of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Association
- CondemnedJinnah Post Graduate Medical Centrein July 2008 and urged authorities to carry out investigations of the incidence, and called for measures to protect doctors and other hospital staff from such attacks.
- Led a hunger strike in February 2011 at the Karachi Press Club for the extradition of Pervez Musharraf after latter's refusal to appear before an anti-terrorism court.
- Demanded immediate opening of the unused Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical College in 2011, which was launched by President Asif Ali Zardari in 2009, which was supposed to be functional in 2010.[3]
Shoe throwing incident
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Immediately after the incident, the Pakistan Peoples Party activist Kazim Hakim[10] offered Rs. 600,000 for the shoe thrown at Arbab Ghulam Rahim; Sardar Ameen Mengal,[11] a leader from Pakistan Peoples Party, Larkana chapter offered Rs.9,000,000 for the shoe.
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- ^ "Adviser to CM, wife acquitted in graft case". Archives.dawn.com. 25 May 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
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