KARACHI: Speaker of Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani has been appointed as acting governor of Sindh after the demise of justice (r) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddique here on Wednesday.
Earlier, Governor House spokesperson conforming the death said, Justice (retd) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui was transported to a private hospital in a critical condition earlier today.
He complained about difficulty in breathing and pain in chest.
The governor was sworn in on November 11 after removal of Ishtratul Ibad Khan, longest-serving governor in Pakistan’s history.
He was the chief justice of Pakistan during the 1999 military coup by General Pervez Musharraf. He defied the request to take a new oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) saying that “taking oath under the PCO, in my opinion, will be a deviation from the oath I had taken to defend the constitution of 1973”.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) during the 2008 presidential election of Pakistan named Justice (retd) Siddiqui as a party candidate to replace Pervez Musharraf as President of Pakistan. He later lost the election to Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari.
Justice (retd) Siddiqui was once again selected for running as a presidential candidate during 2013 elections, but his name was later replaced with Mamnoon Hussain.
