Hasil Bizenjo

Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo (3 February 1958 – 20 August 2020; Urdu: میر حاصل خان بزنجو) was a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Maritime Affairs, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He previously served as Minister for Maritime Affairs in the third Sharif ministry. The President of the National Party of Pakistan, Bizenjo had been an elected member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2009 and was a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. 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 1990 Pakistani general election on the seat of Pakistan National Party.

He was re-elected as a member of National Assembly in the 1997 Pakistani general election on the ticket of Balochistan National Party.

He founded Balochistan National Democratic Party, which later in 2003 merged with Baloch National Movement and as the result of this merger National Party was founded.

In 2009, he was elected as a member of the Senate of Pakistan for the first time.

In 2016, he was appointed as the Minister for Ports and Shipping in the third Sharif ministry. He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after being found guilty in Panama Papers case decision.

Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, Bizenjo 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 while undergoing treatment at a private. He was 62. Bizenjo was buried the following day at his ancestral graveyard in Naal, Khuzdar.