Comrade Asim Akhund was a member of the National Committee of the LPP and youth and cultural
secretary. He died this afternoon, September 2, 2008, at Agha Khan Hospital Karachi.
Comrade Asim Akhund (35) was as well a member of the editorial board of the Weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd and a known Sindhi journal Adharsh.
He studied in a Soviet University and was a teacher of Philosophy at Jamshoroo
University Hyderabad at present time.
Comrade Asim was previously a leading member of Communist Party Pakistan – he left them for
ideological reasons to join Labour Party Pakistan three years earlier.
He was operated of a cardiac complication twice within two months.
We tried to send him to an Indian hospital but doctors told us the emergency
involved.
He will be remembered by LPP and all other Left groups for his excellent
Marxist writings and lectures. He was an expert in explaining dialectical
materialism and Marxism as a whole.
Comrade Asim was an elected member National Committee LPP at the Fourth Congress
in December 2007 and an elected as member National Executive Committee and national
Youth Secretary of LPP.
LPP Sindh developed tremendously in ideological clarity and organizational
after his joining the party.
He took part actively in the LawyersMmovement and fought the Musharraf dictatorship
all the time.
LPP and Marxist movement in Pakistan has lost one of its best ideologue and a
fighter.
Farooq Tariq
Spokesperson
Labour Party Pakistan