Within five weeks of the Pakistan Resolution of the Muslim League in Lahore, Indian Muslims organized Muslim Azad Conference between April 27-30, 1940 in Delhi. Allah Baksh, former Premier of Sindh, was the leading light of this conference.
Soomro was murdered on May 14, 1943 by hired assassins at Shikarpur in Sind. In his tribute, C. Rajagopalachari opined that India had lost one of its most ardent and self-sacrificing spirits