Atta Muhammad Bhanbhro

He was born in a small village called Bachal Bhanbhro in Union Council Rasoolabad, Taluka Sobhodero, Khairpur district near village Mothparja. He completed his early schooling at his hometown. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Khairpur, and later moved to Karachi where he attended Sindh Muslim Law College and obtained Bachelor of Laws. After completing his education, he choose legal profession and started legal practice in Gambat city. He later started practice of law while serving as a junior lawyer with Shaikh Ayaz, a Sindhi poets of Pakistan.[5] He had three sons and three daughters.

Between 1967 and 1968, Bhambhro started publishing a rebellious magazine called Hoshu which was later banned by the government of Pakistan in 1974 under the Defence law of Pakistan. After restrictions were imposed on the magazine, the pieces were later published in several other magazines, and the printing press responsible for publishing the magazine's remained work was also seized by the authorities and he went underground while the publisher and his uncle were arrested following the ban.

He was the receipent of the Madar-i-Watan award given by the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, a left-wing Pakistani political party. During Pervez Musharraf's regime, he was nominated for the Pride of Performance award by Asif Ali Zardari, but he refused to accept it in protest of son's death who was abducted by unknown persons, and found dead with torture marks on his body.[3][8] In 2004, he was awarded Latif Award in recognition of his work on Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, a Sindhi Philosopher, scholar, saint, and poet.[9]

Bhanbhro died in Bachal Bhanbhro village of Hingorja, Khairpur, Pakistan near village Mothparja on 3 June 2020. His will was revealed after his death which made Atta Muhammad Bhanbhro a topic of discussion and it also went viral on social media. According to his will, he is buried upside down so that he should continue to kiss his motherland Sindh until he himself is not decomposed into the sand. The second thing he said in his will was, his grave should be locked with chains and a banner should be pasted on this grave that a slave is buried here. The chains should not be opened until the Sindh is given freedom. The will went viral with the title "his lips kissed the soil of Sindh".

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