Minocher Bhandara popularly known as Minoo, was a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i businessman and former minority representative and member of the National Assembly of Pakistan

National Assembly of Pakistan

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 (MNA). He belonged to the small Zoroastrian community.

Family

Bhandara was the brother of Pakistani novelist, Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is perhaps best known for her collaborative work with filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel which is...

. His father owned a liquor shop on the Mall in Lahore

Lahore

Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...

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His son, Isphanyar Bhandara, is the current CEO of Murree Brewery

Murree Brewery

Murree Brewery is the maker of Pakistan's beer brand, Murree Beer. Its products are only legally available in Pakistan owing to a prohibition on the exportation of alcohol from Pakistan. The brewery has two manufacturing units located in Rawalpindi and Hattar .- History :The Murree Brewery Company...

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Business

He was the architect and owner of one of the most successful and durable business conglomerates in Pakistan. Amongst his companies was the Murree Brewery, which his father had bought a control share in during the 1940s.

Politics

He leaves behind a legacy of enlightened political activism. Bhandara, was active as a minority representative and served as MNA from 16 November 2002 to 15 November 2007.

Minoo also wrote articles in the country's English language newspapers.

1. Father Francis Nadeem, Yeh Des Hamara Hai, Lahore, p. 77

Death

He died in Islamabad on Sunday June 15, 2008 at the age of 71, due to complications as a result of a serious car accident in China several weeks earlier.