Lulama Masikazana, South African cricketer, died he was 38.

Lulama Masikazana was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket as a wicketkeeper for Eastern Province from 1993 to 2000.

(6 February 1973 – 7 October 2011)

He was born in Port Elizabeth. As a schoolboy in 1991, he was one of the first black players to play for the South African Schools cricket team, in a team which included future Test cricketers Shaun Pollock, Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje.^[1]
He made his first-class debut in November 1993 playing as wicketkeeper for the Eastern Province B team against Boland B in the UCB Bowl.^[2] In 38 first-class matches, mainly for Eastern Province or Eastern Province B, He scored one first-class half-century, dismissed for exactly 50 against Boland in November 1997,^[3] and took 111 dismissals, including 10 stumpings. He also took 23 dismissals in 24 List A one-day matches.
He died in Port Elizabeth after a sudden illness, 4 months short of his 39th birthday.

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Enrique Monsonís, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982), died he was 80.

Enric Monsonís Domingo  was a Spanish liberal politician. Monsonís served as the head of the pre-autonomous government of the Consell Pre-autonòmic del País Valencià (Pre-autonomous Council of the Valencian Country) from 1979 to 1982.^[1]

(June 28, 1931 – October 7, 2011)

He left office in 1982 when Valencia became an autonomous community of Spain, known as the Valencian Community, and elected its first democratically chosen President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Joan Lerma as part of the country's transition to democracy.^[1]
Monsonis was born in Burriana, Valencia, Spain, the son of an orange merchant.^[1] He obtained a law degree from the University of Valencia.^[1] He moved to Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1954 for the orange export industry, where he handled 2% of Spain's exports to the country.^[1]
Monsonis joined the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD).^[1] He chaired the pre-autonomous government of Valencia from 1979 to 1982 until elections were held in 1982 as part of the transition to democracy.^[1] Monsonís was succeeded by Joan Lerma of the PSOE, who was elected President of the Generalitat Valenciana in the 1982 election.^[1]
Monsonís attempted a political comeback in 2004 as a member of the Valencian Union.^[1] However, he was unsuccessful and largely retired from public life thereafter.^[1]
Monsonis died in his hometown of Borriana, Plana Baixa, Valencia, on October 7, 2011, at the age of 80.^[1][2]


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Milan Puskar, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, died from cancer he was 77.

Milan "Mike" Puškař was an entrepreneur and philanthropist^[1] from Morgantown, West Virginia. He was born to Serbian parents.

(September 8, 1934 – October 7, 2011) 

Born in Vintondale, Pennsylvania in 1934,^[2]Puškař was a 1960 graduate of Youngstown State University.^[1] In 1961, he and Don Panoz co-founded the pharmaceutical company known today as Mylan Inc.^[3] Puskar was Mylan's president from 1976 through 2000.^[4] In November 1993, at the age of 58, he also became the company's chairman and chief executive officer.^[5] He served as CEO until 2002^[6] and as chairman until 2009.^[4]
West Virginia University's Milan Puskar Stadium was named for him after he made a US$20 million donation.^[7]
Puskar died in Morgantown, WV on October 7, 2011 from cancer.


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Michel Peissel, French explorer and author, died from a heart attack he was 74.

Michel Georges Francois Peissel was a French ethnologist, explorer and author.^[1] He wrote twenty books mostly on his Himalayan and Tibetan expeditions. Michel Peissel was an emeritus member of the Explorers Club and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

(February 11, 1937 – October 7, 2011) 

Biography

Raised in England Peissel later studied a year at Oxford University and the Harvard Business School and obtained a Doctorate in Tibetan Ethnology from the Sorbonne, Paris.

First journey

In 1958, at the age of 21 — stranded on the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico,— he walked 200 miles down the coast to Belize discovering, on the way, 14 yet unrecorded Mayan archeological sites. This journey changed his life, leaving the Harvard Business School after a year, he decided to study ethnology and explore the last unknown regions of Tibet and the Himalayas.

Himalayan expeditions

Himalayan territories crossed by Michel Peissel

To study the Sherpas of Everest: In 1959, Peissel organised his first Himalayan expedition out of Harvard to study the Sherpas of the Everest district.
To Mustang: In 1964 he set out across the Himalayas to explore Mustang, a minute Tibetan speaking kingdom whose identity had escaped the attention of both scholars and the general public. His written account of the expedition, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, an international best seller, was published in 1967.
To Bhutan, Zanskar, and many other destinations: The Mustang expedition was followed by 28 others to the remotest regions of the Tibetan speaking world. In 1968 he became one of the first foreigners to cross Bhutan and study its little known Eastern districts. He then performed the first detailed study of the Kingdom of Zanskar in Kashmir, later studying the Minaro (Dards) of Baltistan and Ladakh while attempting to locate precisely the "land of the gold digging ants" of Herodotus.
By Hovercraft: In 1973, he crossed the Himalayas by hovercraft, between Mt. Annapurna and Mt. Dhaulaghiri. Later he travelled by hovercraft up the Ganges, in India, and also down the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico, after having invented and patented the first single fan hovercraft. (patent). He enjoyed saying he had "pioneered the sport of shooting up rapids".
To Tsari: In 1986 he became one of the very first foreigners to penetrate Tsari and the gorges of the Brahmaputra in tropical Tibet.
To the source of the Mekong: In 1994 he led an expedition to locate the elusive source of the Mekong River following the Dza Nak (the black Mekong, the historical main branch of the river) thus believing to discover the historical source of Asia's third longest river. Ten years later a Sinojapanese expedition Chinese proved that the geographical source (the farthest from the sea) lies at the headwaters of the white Mekong, Dza Kar, which satellite photos show to be 4500 meters longer than what Peissel called the historical branch. Thus like the Mississippi, the Yellow river and countless other rivers the Mekong is considered to have a geographical source and a historical source.
To find archaic breeds of horse: In 1995 subsequent to previous investigations and research on Tibetan breeds of horses he organised an expedition with the veterinary scholar Dr Ignasi Casas which led to the identification of a yet unknown archaic breed of horses; the Riwoche horse. (See note below.)

From Yucatan to Belize

In 1987 in relation with Mexican archeologists Peissel built a giant sea going Mayan dugout canoe and paddled and sailed 500 miles down the Yucatan coast and that of Belize to demonstrate the role of maritime commerce by the Chontal Itzas in the 10th century collapse of the Mayan lowland cities.

In the wake of the Varangians

In 1988, having built a replica of a Viking long boat, Peissel and a crew of six rowed and sailed up the river Dvina and down the Dnieper 2400 km across the Soviet Union, from the Baltic to the Black Sea; an expedition meant to recreate that of the Varangians, the founding fathers of the Russian monarchy in the 8th century.

Marriages and children

Michel Peissel was married three times and has five children, Olivier Peissel and Jocelyn Peissel, from his marriage to Marie-Claire de Montaignac, Octavia Peissel and Morgan Peissel, from his marriage to Mildred (Missy) Allen and Valentin Peissel from his Marriage to Roselyne LeBris

Books

• "The Lost World of Quintana Roo". New York E.P. Dutton,1962 and Hodder and Stoughton,1964
• "Tiger for Breakfast:the story of Boris of Katmandu": E.P. Dutton, 1966 and Hodder and Stoughton 1967
• "Mustang a Lost Tibetan Kingdom".New York: E.P. Dutton 1967 and London Collins-Harvill,1968
• "The Cavaliers of Kham, the secret war in Tibet" London: Heinemann 1972, and Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1973
• "The Great Himalayan Passage" Collins 1974, and Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1975
• "Himalaya, continent Secret" Paris, Flammarion 1975
• "Les Portes de l'Or" Paris, Robert Laffont 1978
• "Zanskar the Hidden Kingdom". New York E.P. Dutton 1979 and London: Collins-Harvill 1980
• "The Ant's Gold, discovering the Greek Eldorado" London: Collins-Harvill 1984
• "Royaumes de l'Himalaya". Paris: Bordas & Fils 1986
• "Itza, le mystere du Naufrage Maya". Paris: Robert Laffont 1989
• "La Route de l'Ambre". Paris: Robert Laffont 1992
• "The Last Barbarians, the discovery of the source of the Mekong". New York: Henry Holt & Company 1997, and London Souvenir Press 1998
• "Le Dernier Horizon". Paris: Robert Laffont 2001
• "Tibet, the Secret Continent". London Cassell Illustrated, 2002, and New York: St Martin's Press 2003
• "Tibetan Pilgrimage" New York: Abrams 2005

Films

Peissel has produced, directed or initiated 22 documentary films on his expeditions. 4 part series in 1980 by the BBC on "Zanskar, the Last Place on Earth" Smithsonian exploration special for the Arts and Entertainment Channel on the source of the Mekong Other films and videos are visible on the French National Archives website, (INA)

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Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies), died he was 85.

Andrew Laszlo A.S.C. Hungarian: László András  was a Hungarian-American cinematographer best known for his work on the cult film classic The Warriors . He earned Emmy nominations for The Man Without a Country in 1973 and the 1980 TV miniseries Shōgun in 1980.

(January 12, 1926 – October 7, 2011)

Early Life (1926-1941)

"I never believed I was anybody special. I still don't think so, nor did I ever believe that anyone would give a hoot hearing about who I was, where I came from, what I did at various stages of my life, and why. I am convinced the world would function equally well, or equally badly, with or without me. - Andrew Laszlo, Footnote to History, 2002"^[1]

So begins a section of Andrew Laszlo's recount of his early years and speaks modestly of the man who survived unimaginable atrocities during that time and accomplished much in his later life.
He was born László András in 1926 in the vicinity of Pápa, Hungary the town where his family finally settled about the time that Andrew was three years old. Until World War II began to affect life in Hungary, his life was relatively carefree and was spent in relative comfort although the family had to move several times into smaller or bigger quarters depending on the financial circumstances of his father. He was close to his older brother, Alex, with whom he often dreamed up exciting adventures sometimes leading to catastrophy.
Of his many early experiences, one that served as a prelude to later tragedies, was seeing the Graf Zeppelin fly over Papa. Inquiring about the symbol painted on the tail of the airship, Andrew's father said that it was a swastika. That is all he wanted to tell his young son at the time.
Andrew was an avid swimmer and skater during his early school years and became accomplished at fencing in High School. It was also during this time that his interest in photography began and led later to a small business printing photos for his fellow classmates.
In the late 1930s, Andrew's father, Leslie (Hungarian: Laci), was called up to serve in the Hungarian Army. This effectively ruined his business, forcing Andrew to learn the fine art of lampshade manufacture to help support the family. This was a successful undertaking even though Andrew was still a full time High School student. Then, as for everyone else, World War II turned everything up-side-down.

The War Years (1941-1947)

In June 1941, the Hungarian city of Kassa (today Košice in Slovakia) was bombed by air. Although several theories are still debated about the real perpetrators, the Hungarian government used the incident as the reason for declaring war on Russia. From then on, Hungary was irreversibly tied to the Axis powers and Germany/Hitler in particular. Anti-semitism that had been simmering for years now came to the fore in Hungary. In 1944, a part of Papa was turned into a Ghetto and all Jews were forced to move there, including the Laszlo family. In early June, Andrew was forced to join a Labor Camp and was taken there in a railroad cattle car. On June 29, his family (excepting his brother, Alex) was taken from Papa and sent to Auschwitz. Andrew was then taken to another labor camp in what is now Romania and put to work laying railroad track. After one more move to another camp, Andrew received a final postcard from his brother, Alex.
Following an air raid on the labor camp, Andrew deserted and found his way to Budapest. After a short stay in City Park (Hungarian: Varosliget) he and hundreds of others were herded onto boxcars and sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This was the winter of 1944. Here, he survived for months in an atmosphere of cold, starvation, beatings, outright murder, lice infestation and constant reminders of death. Near his 19th birthday, he spotted his Aunt Alice in the camp. She perished there not much later.
In March 1945, with the pressure on the Germans in Norway increasing, Andrew was shipped to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt. Here, like thousands of others, he came down with typhoid fever. It was here that he was reunited with his father, someone he thought of as long dead. Finally, on May 8, 1945, Theresienstadt was liberated by the Russians. As part of returning to humanity, Andrew found a piano at the camp and asked his fellow Hungarian pianist, George Feyer to play for the liberators and the liberated.
On his return to Papa, he found the town to be a much different place, including it being run by the Russian Army. Being entrepreneurial, he restarted his photography business with the Russian soldiers being great customers. After taking the final exam, Andrew got his High School diploma and then moved to Budapest where a job at the Hungarian Film Bureau was waiting for him. Unfortunately, this job was not very exciting and paid little. Andrew realized that it would take years for the Hungarian movie business to return to its former self and did not want to wait that long. So, he went back to Papa and began to plan for his immigration to the United States at the urging of his uncle, George Laszlo, who was already living in New York and was willing to sponsor him. He found his way to New York by way of Ulm, Germany, where he survived by selling American cigarettes (sent to him by Uncle George) to the locals. After a brief but obligatory stop in Frankfurt, Andrew was given the right to enter the United States. He did so on January 17, 1947 by walking down the gangplank of the SS Ernie Pyle after it had docked on the west side of Manhattan. He had turned 21 just five days earlier.

Life and Career in the United States (1947-1996)

On arrival, Andrew was taken under the wings of his Uncle, George Laszlo, who was a painter, inventor and lithographer already living in New York City. Andrew quickly adjusted to life in Manhattan. As he stated in his own words for the documentary Cinematographer Style:

"My main objective was to keep my head above water, work and have enough money to live, learn the language, the faster the better, because that was the most essential element in getting work. Most importantly, I was trying to get work that was in some ways connected with photography.

For some time I worked in the laboratory of a company that printed textiles and wallpaper with a photographic process. I worked in the darkroom, as I put it, to keep my fingers in the developer. At one time, I worked as a door-to-door baby photographer. I had a camera and a few lights I could do the work with.

Then the greatest break of my life came. I was the number one person from New York City to be drafted by the army for the Korean War. I wound up in the U.S. Army motion picture school, which was wonderful. We not only had all the equipment, the school insisted we shoot 35mm motion picture film, day-in and day-out, thousands of feet and, of course, doing it is the greatest way to learn.

When I came out of the army it was a little bit rough. I was a young fellow, trying to enter the industry, which was very difficult because I had no track record. I tried absolutely everything to get work. In fact, I resorted to gags that nowadays I’m actually a bit self-conscious to talk about. I was turned down by so many producers, even smalltime ones; I couldn’t even get past secretaries. At one point, I sent out hand-printed résumés on sandpaper just so they would remember it. I sent out résumés on shirt cardboard so they couldn’t crumple it up and toss it in the wastebasket. The breaks finally came. I took any job offered to me, as long as I had a chance to be behind a camera, do some lighting, experiment with lenses and so on. Then better jobs were offered and that is how I got started. As I said earlier, the important thing is to stick with it."

Shortly before his discharge from the US Army Signal Corps, Andrew married his New York-born sweethart, Ann Granger. Soon, the family grew to three with the arrival of his first son, also named Andrew. With perseverance, he landed a job as a camera operator on The Phil Silvers Show. This was followed by a number of other TV shows, including Naked City where he served as the Director of Photography. With greater opportunities came the necessity to work on locations around the world. Resisting the temptation to move to Hollywood, Andrew settled with his family in the suburbs of New York where three more children (Jim, Jeffrey and Elizabeth) arrived in quick succession.
Andrew started to work with TV personality Ed Sullivan in 1953 and filmed programs in Portugal, Alaska and Ireland. In 1959, Ed 'kidnapped' Andrew to Havana, Cuba under the pretense that they would be filming a segment in the Dominican Republic. Ed's real goal was to do an interview with Fidel Castro who had just overthrown the Batista government. Ed, unfortunately, did not realize that the electrical system in Cuba would not support the camera equipment and lighting normally used in the United States. This created enormous technical issues for the crew with the possibility that the equipment could cause a blackout in the entire neighborhood. Somehow, the footage turned out OK if only passably so.
In 1962, Andrew was offered his first feature film, One Potato, Two Potato, a controversial film about the interracial marriage of a black man and white divorcee. In 1966, he filmed Francis Ford Coppola's You're A Big Boy Now, with Geraldine Page receiving an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. This was followed in 1968 by The Night They Raided Minsky's, a big-budget musical marred by the mid-production death of Bert Lahr.
On August 15, 1965, The Beatles were scheduled to give a concert at Shea Stadium in New York City. Andrew took on this Ed Sullivan production with trepidation and excitement since it would be the first extremely large rock concert to be filmed for television. Even with careful preparation, the film crew was not prepared for the piercing screams of an audience made up of 56,000 teenagers. The sound system was completely overwhelmed, making it necessary to dub much of the song tracks in postproduction. Nevertheless, and using 14 cameras scattered through the place, the crew managed to film not just the Beatles but much of the audience in the stands and the security detail that was hoping that a major stampede would not break out. When all was said and done, the crew had recorded over 200,000 feet of film of which only 10,800 made it into the finished documentary. As a long-lasting effect, Andrew's hearing was never to be normal again.
In 1979, he filmed the Walter Hill cult film The Warriors. This movie gave Andrew the opportunity to devise several cinematic techniques, including the innovative lighting used for subway car interior shots. Musing in his 2000 book "Every Frame a Rembrandt,"^[2] he says:

"If made today, The Warriors would probably be an altogether different movie. The availability of fast and more sensitive, more forgiving negative and positive film stocks, faster lenses in all focal ranges, smaller, more powerful lights, electronic postproduction - all would add up to different photographic techniques, which would negate the need for the same ingenuity in dealing with the difficulties of cinematography in 1978."

Movie buffs may get the chance to see if Andrew was right, when the remake of The Warriors comes out sometime in 2012.
Returning to television, Andrew was the cinematographer on the 1980 five-part NBC miniseries Shōgun starring Richard Chamberlain. Filmed entirely on location in Japan, the production had many difficulties including the challenge of conversation with and direction to actors and extras who spoke no English. An unfortunate but funny anecdote often retold by Andrew was the premature kickoff of a fierce action sequence in Osaka harbor including guns blazing, extras jumping into the water, bombs exploding and boats sinking everywhere. Unfortunately, the cameras were not rolling. The whole scene had to be reshot at great cost of time and money. The details of this incident are recalled in Adrew's book "It's a Wrap."^[3]
His last feature film Newsies, filmed in 1991, was about a newspaper delivery-boy's strike that took place in 1899. The film starred Christian Bale and Robert Duvall. Although the movie was a box-office flop, it gained a cult following and was turned into a stage musical at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey. It will move to Broadway for a limited run from March to June, 2012.
With Newsies in the can, Andrew decide that it was time to change his focus from TV and film production to teaching, fly-fishing, and woodworking.

The Later Years (1996-2011)

With the movie business behind him, Andrew spent his time giving lectures to film students throughout the United States. This gave him the opportunity to write two books about the art and science of cinematography.^[2][3] With a knack for storytelling and a great imagination, Andrew wrote and published several works of fiction. The Rat Catcher^[4] was published in 2004. A Fight of No Consequence^[5] appeared in 2006 and concerns an ex-fighter trying for a comeback. His experiences in Japan while filming Shogun, let to the writing of the fictional book Banjin"^[6] When not lecturing or writing, Andrew used his time on various wood- and metal-working projects. When visiting his ranch in Montana, he often took advantage of the first-class fly-fishing streams and rivers in the area. Above all else, he enjoyed spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren. After a sudden illness diagnosed mid-year, he died at his home on October 7, 2011 in Montana, age 85.

Feature Motion Pictures

Note: In some cases the Year represents the date of creation, not release.

• Newsies (1992)
• Ghostdad (1989)
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
• Thief of Hearts (1984)
• Streets of Fire (1983)
• Rambo: First Blood (1982)
• I, The Jury (1982)
• Love is Forever (1982)
• Southern Comfort (1981)
• The Funhouse (1981)
• The Warriors (1979)
• Somebody Killed Her Husband (1977)
• Angela (1976)
• Thieves (1975)
• Countdown at Kusini (1974)
• Class of '44 (1973)
• To Find a Man (1971)
• Jennifer On My Mind (1971)
• The Owl And The Pussycat (1970)
• Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
• The Out-Of-Towners (1970)
• Popi (1968)
• The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
• You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
• One Potato, Two Potato (1963)

Television Programs

Note: In some cases the Year represents the date of production, not airing.

Miniseries

• Shōgun (1979)
• Top of the Hill (1978)
• The Dain Curse (1978)
• Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977)

Series

• Coronet Blue
• The Doctors and Nurses
• The Nurses
• Naked City
• Brenner (CBS)
• Mama (CBS)
• Joe and Mabel (CBS)
• The Phil Silvers Show (CBS)

Documentaries

• The Twentiety Century (CBS)
• High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (NBC)

Specials

• The Beatles at Shea Stadium (ABC)
• Ed Sullivan, Vietnam Veterans Easter Special (CBS)
• Ed Sullivan in Cuba (CBS)
• Ed Sullivan in Ireland (CBS)
• Ed Sullivan in Alaska (CBS)
• Ed Sullivan in Porugal (CBS)

Features and Pilots

• Thin Ice (1980)
• Spanner's Key (1978)
• The Unwanted (1974)
• The Man Without a Country (1972)
• Blue Water Gold (1969)
• Teacher, Teacher (1967)
• Daphne (1966)
• The Cliffdwellers (1965)
• The Happeners (1965)

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Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, Puerto Rican general, died he was 95.

Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer was a Rotary District Governor for Puerto Rico and a retired Major general in the Puerto Rico National Guard. He earned his bachelor in political science from the University of Puerto Rico in 1940 and his Juris Doctor from the UPR school of law in 1947.^[1]

(September 12, 1916 – October 7, 2011)

He served three terms as Dean of Pontifical Catholic University School of Law. He was one of the Founders of Ponce School of Medicine. a two time president of Phi Sigma Alpha^[2] and a "Hermano Emeritus" Medal holder^[3] of the Fraternity.

In 1950 he was one of the founders of the Gamma-Boriquen chapter of Fi Sigma Alpha fraternity.^[4] He was a co-founder, of the El Vigia Rotary Club and was appointed to Government Committees by all the elected Governors of the Commonwealth Puerto Rico. He was also Chairman of the PR Electoral Reform Commission. He was a member of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Legacy

The Charles R. Cuprill Oppenheimer Award is given to the Graduate Student with the Most Outstanding Grade in the Administrative Law Course.



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Haji Amir Bux Junejo, Pakistani politician, died he was 95

Haji Amir Bux  was a Pakistani politician and Legendary landlord of Sindh,^[1] who was elected four times member in Provisional Assembly, Sindh. He was famously known as "Otaqi Wadero" of Sindh whose guest house was open to all and sundry where they were fed round the clock.^[2]

(24 December 1916 – 7 October 2011)

Early life

Only son of Imam Bux Khan Junejo, Born on December 24, 1916 in Khanpur, 1916 in Khanpur, Junejo passed primary education in 1927 in Khanpur primary School, He passed Sindhi Final in 1939 in Govt. High School Boriri. He recruited to Police in 1941 as Sobedar (Inspector). He resigned in 1946 and joined independence struggle by the Muslim League.

Political career

In 1970s he joined PPP and was elected MPA on the party ticket three times in 1970,^[3] 1988^[4] and 1990.^[5] Junejo took part in the Movement for Restoration of Democracy in 1983 and was sent to jail for six months.
In the General Election of 1970 He was highest vote achiever in numbers on MPA seat in East & West Pakistan, BBC broadcasted that news. He was consider to be the closed companion of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.^[6]
He left PPP and joined PML in 1993 and was again elected MPA in 1997.^[7] After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, he stopped running for MPA and later rejoined PPP.

Social Work

He was famous in the area for his generosity and it was known to everybody that his guest house was the ultimate place where all weary travelers and the destitute and the hungry could have food and shelter and a lot of kindness.^[8]
Haji Amir Bux Junejo provided three-time meal to hundreds of people daily. He was very kind to the poor and he used to provide grain to the poor for the entire family during wheat harvest season.
Late Junejo had allocated income from 500 acres of his farmland to feed the hungry and his guests. Hundreds of people used to visit his Otaq daily to have food.^[9]

Death

He was died on October 7, 2011 at his Hyderabad residence in Qasimabad. He is survived by three sons and seven daughters.

Funeral and burial

Late Junejo was laid to rest at Jamia Masjid Ali Bux Junejo in Kakar town and his funeral prayer was held in Ali Bux Junejo village. Funeral Pryer was performed by Syed Hussain Shah of Qamber Shareef, Awami Ittehad Party chairman Liaquat Ali Jatoi, former MPA Sadaqat Ali Jatoi and Pir of Ranipur Roshan Ali Shah were also among those who attended his funeral prayer.^[10]


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