Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (3 February 1958 – 20 August 2020;

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: میر حاصل خان بزنجو) was a

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politician who served as Minister for Maritime Affairs, in

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from August 2017 to May 2018. He previously served as Minister for Maritime Affairs in the

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. The President of the National Party of Pakistan, Bizenjo had been an elected member of the

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since 2009 and was a former member of the

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. He was nominated as senate Chairman by opposition parties Rehbar committee.

Political career

Bizenjo started his political career after getting elected member of National Assembly of Pakistan in the

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on the seat of Pakistan National Party. He was re-elected as a member of National Assembly in the

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on the ticket of Balochistan National Party. He founded Balochistan National Democratic Party, which later in 2003 merged with

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and as the result of this merger National Party was founded. He was elected president of National Party in 2014. In 2009, he was elected as a member of the Senate of Pakistan for the first time. In 2015, he was re-elected as a member of the Senate. In March 2015, he was nominated by

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at the post of Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan. In 2016, he was appointed as the Minister for Ports and Shipping in the

. He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister

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after being found guilty in

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decision. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed as federal minister for Ports and Shipping which was later renamed as Ministry of Maritime Affairs in October 2017. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Bizenjo ceased to hold the office as Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs. On 11 July 2019, he was nominated as a candidate for Senate Chairmanship by Rehbar Committee.

Death

Bizenjo was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019. On 20 August 2020, he died in Karachi, at the age of 62, and was buried the following day at his ancestral graveyard in Naal,

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Another Baloch leader died without seeing democratic Pakistan
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