Fanoos Gujjar, was a left-wing Pakistani politician from Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
21 Facts About Fanoos Gujjar
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Fanoos Gujjar was the founding chairperson and president of Awami Workers Party.
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Fanoos Gujjar spent his life in grass root struggle for the rights of minorities, workers, peasants, women and students.
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Fanoos Gujjar was born in 1958 in union council Chagharzai, Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the house of Haji Zafar Khan.
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Fanoos Gujjar received his initial education in the district Buner and graduation from the Buner Government College and later in Lahore.
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In Peshawar, Gujjar contributed to the left-wing newspaper "Daily Shehbaz" and as editor of the newspaper "Jiddat" in Peshawar.
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Fanoos Gujjar was a socialist and he believed in progressive politics.
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Fanoos Gujjar was grass root organizer of politics of resistance and even with small number of resources, he stayed committed to the left-wing politics.
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Fanoos Gujjar started his political career in his student life in early 1970s by joining, a left-wing students' body, National Students Federation.
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Fanoos Gujjar remained part of the Democratic Students Federation and Pashtun Students Federation.
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Fanoos Gujjar remained part of the peasant movement in Karachi and later joined communist party.
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Fanoos Gujjar was arrested and faced imprisonments many times during dictatorship of Ziaul Haq.
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Fanoos Gujjar was part of Movement for the Restoration of Democracy and the National Awami Party.
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Fanoos Gujjar started his new political journey across the country in 1990s and brought people from lower classes together to form Awami Party Pakistan.
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Fanoos Gujjar raised the network of solidarity to fight against the injustice faced by his community specifically students and youth.
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Fanoos Gujjar was elected as president of AWP in its second congress in 2016.
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Fanoos Gujjar contested general elections 2018 from his native constituency, Buner, KP.
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Fanoos Gujjar was among the founder members of PTM.
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Fanoos Gujjar had been suffering from multiple diseases and left with just one kidney for the past decade.
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Fanoos Gujjar died on December 1,2018, due to cardiac arrest.
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Fanoos Gujjar's funeral held in his native village Riyal, Union Council Batala, district Buner which was attended by thousands of people from all fields of life.