Worker of Pakistan Movement, recipient of Nishan Imtiaz and former NWFP Governor Fida Muhammad Khan died here after protracted illness on Thursday. He was in his late 80s. The veteran Leaguer was on the bed at his residence on Shami road for quite a long time and had retired from the active politics.

He remained Governor NWFP from 1986 to 1988. He was buried in his ancestral graveyard at Sarki Gate in the interior city Thursday afternoon. His nimaz e janaza was attended among others by former NWFP Governor and PML leader Miangul Aurangzeb, ANP leader Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and PML (N) leader Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, high ranking government officials.

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