Sheikh Mohammad Rashid

Sheikh Mohammad Rashid
Minister of Agriculture
In office
24 December 1971 – 22 October 1974
Prime MinisterZulfikar Ali Bhutto
Personal details
BornSheikh Mohammad Rashid
1915
Died12 September 2002(2002-09-12) (aged 86–87)
PartyPakistan Peoples Party
OccupationPolitical leader, political activist
CabinetBhutto administration (1971–74)
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Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, (1915 – 12 September 2002) one of the founding fathers of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was regarded as an ideologue by thousands of PPP activists and was committed to a socialist cause. This had earned him a reputed nickname in Lahore as Baba-e-Socialism (Father of Socialism).

But after the PPP's return to power, following long years of the military rule in the 1980s, Sheikh Rashid had gradually felt alienated within the party, despite being its one time Senior Vice Chairman.