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Pakistans Ambassador to India Shahid Malik (R) talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an Iftar gathering during Ramazan at the residence of Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on September 18, 2009. — AFP
NEW DELHI A senior Pakistani diplomat in the Indian capital died of an electric shock in his residency while using a hairdryer in the bathroom, a colleague said Monday.
M. Khan Afridi, political counsellor at Pakistans High Commission (embassy) in New Delhi, collapsed after taking a shower on Sunday evening, a Pakistani diplomat told AFP.
'It was probably caused by an electric short circuit,' the Pakistani diplomat said, asking not to be named.
The 47-year-old was rushed to a hospital in New Delhi but was declared dead.
The body was taken to Pakistan late Sunday, the colleague added.
