KARACHI, March 6: Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh chapter secretary general Amin Khattak died of a heart attack on Sunday afternoon. He was 57. His funeral prayer was offered at the Lasbela intersection after Isha prayer and his body would be flown to Naushera on Monday at 7am for burial in his ancestral village Jalo Zai.

He was a chronic diabetic patient and a fortnight ago he had been discharged from hospital after treatment.

On Sunday, he suffered a heart attack which he could not survive.

Amin Khattak was a true follower of Bacha Khan and lived a simple life and dedicated himself to serve the people as a political worker.

He remained unmarried all his life and lived with the family of his elder brother in Patel Para in Karachi.

During the dictatorship rule of general Zia, he was imprisoned for his political beliefs and commitment to them and was even whipped during the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy.

Born in 1954, Mr Khattak started his political career with the National Democratic Party in 1988 as its ward president.

Being wedded to the politics of the left, he soon joined the ANP and became its Karachi division president in 1994 and in 1996 he was elected as secretary general of the ANP Sindh chapter.

In 2001 when Ajmal Khattak revived the National Awami Party, he joined him and after it was merged with the ANP he was made a deputy secretary general of the party.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, MQM chief Altaf Hussain and members of the MQM coordination committee, Jamaat-i-Islami leaders Dr Mairaj-ul-Huda Siddiqui, Muhammad Hussain Mehanti, Nasrullah Shaji, Muzaffar Hashmi, PML leader retired captain Haleem Siddiqui and others expressed their deep grief and sorrow over his death and expressed their condolences to the family.