PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Gulzar Khan passed away on Monday, according to his family.
Bureaucrat-turned-politician was suffering from heart problems and passed away at his native home in Masho Gogar, in Peshawar’s Badhaber area.
His funeral prayers will be held at 4 pm in his native town.
Khan was the leader of the group of PTI’s ‘dissident MNAs’ who did not agree to the party chairman Imran Khan’s call to resign from the National Assembly, during the 2014 dharna [sit-in] against the government.
He served as the home secretary of the province as well as the deputy commissioner of Peshawar, before joining the PTI.
PTI Chairman, Imran Khan expressed his condolences on Twitter:
Saddened to learn of our MNA Gulzar Khan’s passing. My prayers go to the family in their time of grief.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) August 28, 2017