Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid or Qazi Abid ( ur, قاضی عبد المجید عابد ), was the father of Former National Speaker

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and former member of the National Assembly and Chairman of the Daily Ibrat Newspaper

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. He died due to lung cancer on 27 August 1996. He was a prominent politician and journalist from

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. Qazi Abid held several positions in the Federal Cabinet of numerous Pakistani Prime Ministers. His positions included Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Federal Minister of Education, Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, and Federal Minister for Water and Power. He was the publisher of the ''

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'', a Sindhi newspaper, which is still published by his son Qazi Asad Abid. His excellence in the field of journalism was recognized formally when he was awarded the Writers' Forum Award in 1985. Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid, along with his brother Qazi Muhammad Akbar (Qazi Akbar), are generally regarded as the patriarchs of the

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. They also had a sister, Afroze Begum, who married

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, father of

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. Qazi Akbar was a long serving provincial minister in Sindh, including being Home Minister. Their father, Qazi Abdul Qayyum, was the first Muslim President of the Hyderabad Municipality. Qazi Abid's progeny involved in Pakistani politics has included his daughter,

, who is the Speaker of the National Assembly in Pakistan; his son, Qazi Asad Abid, a former member of the National Assembly; his niece, Ameena Ashraf (Qazi Akbar's daughter), a former member of the National Assembly; and his great nephew,

Pir Mazhar Ul Haq Pir Mazhar Ul Haq ( ur, پیر مظہر الحق ) born 14 September 1947 is a Pakistani politician who remained a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 1988 to 2013. He also remained Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Departm ...

(Qazi Akbar's grandson), a three time Sindh Provincial Minister, who currently is the Senior Minister in the Provincial Cabinet, holding the portfolio of Education.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abid, Qazi Abdul Majeed 1915 births 1996 deaths Sindhi people 20th-century Pakistani people

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