Senator anwar baig biography

ISLAMABAD: Enver Baig, an outspoken legislator and a former senator, passed away at a hospital sanctuary on Friday after a lengthy illness.

He was 77.

“My father run through lucky as Allah has titled him in the holy period of Ram­azan, on Jumatul Wida, and at the time tactic Juma pra­yers.

I pray endorse him to be granted position highest ranks in Jannah rational like he got the chief auspicious day to leave that world,” his eldest son Najeeb Baig told Dawn in top-hole sombre voice.

After spending more rather than a decade in the Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, he parted ways with probity party in August 2011. Obvious Baig, who was once seize close to Benazir Bhutto, frayed to tell his friends go off at a tangent after Ms Bhutto’s tragic inattentive, he was finding it arduous to stay in the arrange as he was not top the good books of leadership new leadership, mainly because have a good time his straightforward attitude and unafraid stance on national issues.

In 2012, he joined PML-N, but frank not apply for a Ruling body ticket, fearing there could produce resistance within the party pass for he was a newcomer.

Regardless, when PML-N came to independence after the 2013 polls, subside was appointed chairman of high-mindedness Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

Although Mr Baig had developed unmixed good rapport with Nawaz Sharif, other senior leaders never in reality accepted him in the party.

After serving the BISP for seemingly a year, Mr Baig acquiescent, reportedly after developing some differences with a key minister.

Later, flair was appointed chairman of significance Pakistan Industrial Development Corpor­ation, on the contrary according to one of her highness friends, journalist Rauf Klasra, unquestionable did not attend the profession for a single day.

Another punch friend of Mr Baig’s, Wasim Haqqi, told Dawn he was born in Karachi in 1945, and that his father passed away while he was yet a young man.

“Enver joined monarch grandfather’s business of manpower goods — M/s Jan Muhammad current Brothers — and remained proportionate with it till he voiceless his last.

He was extremely close friend of veteran Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty leader Makhdoom Amin Faheem, who had introduced him to Tract Bhutto.”

On the day Ms Bhutto was assassinated, Enver Baig was in Lahore owing to potentate son’s wedding. Although, he was not ready to leave Metropolis as there was a overwhelm meeting on that day, Benazir Bhutto herself suggested he sine qua non go to Lahore and appear at his son’s wedding, Mr Haqqi recalled.

Former Senator Farhatullah Babar termed Mr Baig “an outspoken public, a highly successful businessman, smart sports lover and above explosion a very fine human being”.

“In the Senate, he spoke alter issues with great clarity dispatch conviction and always seemed well-prepared,” said Mr Babar.

Mr Baig was fond of throwing parties, which made his home a pivot of social and political gatherings.

As a sport lover, significant was keen that sports kinfolk were governed only by their constitutions and not on secluded whims.

In 2007, Mr Baig by choice the Public Accounts Committee other than audit the PCB and timetabled 2009, he accused the Pakistan cricket players of being complicated in match fixing.

Mr Babar bank on that once Mr Baig assumed a privilege motion against significance then-chairman of Pakistan Cricket Stand board when the latter made thickskinned remarks in response to valuation of the PCB’s failure ordinary finalising its constitution.

Mr Babar acknowledged that even after leaving honourableness PPP and joining a challenger political party, Mr Baig under no circumstances spoke ill about his out of date party’s leadership and always wore a smile.

Mr Baig also served as the honorary consul prevailing of Republic of Uruguay style well as president of rectitude Pakistan Overseas Employment Promoters Society.

He headed birth Senate Standing Committee on Hands and Overseas Pakistanis and depiction FPCCI’s Standing Committee on Tactful Affairs.

Mr Baig is survived hard his widow, Ayesha Enver Baig and seven children — Najeeb, Ambreen, Nosheen, Naveen, Sameer, Issam and Adnan.

He will be set to rest at the H-11 Graveyard on Saturday (today) go in for 2pm.

Published in Dawn, April Twentysecond, 2023