KARACHI, Dec 13: Baqauddin, a most popular custom officer, who retired as assistant collector of customs a few years back, died in Dallas, US, of a heart attack. He was 64.

Baqauddin, commonly called as Baqa Bhai, had gone to the United States for his medical checkup about a month back.

He was admitted to a Dallas hospital for kidney treatment, for which he had been on dialysis.

During the treatment requiring kidney tests, the die being passed into the kidney burst and the drug spread into his body. He went into comma during which he was stated to have suffered a heart attack, which proved fatal.

He leaves behind three sons and a daughter. His two sons and the daughter are in the US and the third son is in Karachi. His wife had also died in Dallas two years back.

Baqa had been writing a weekly column, Social Roundup, in an Urdu daily.

His brother, Sirajuddin, told APP that arrangements were being made to bring Baqa’s body to Karachi.