PML-N Senator Mushahidullah Khan passed away in Islamabad on Thursday. He was 68 years old.

Mushahidullah had been awarded a ticket by the PML-N to contest the upcoming Senate elections on a general seat.

President Dr. Arif Alivi, Prime Minister Imran Khan, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, Speakers and Deputy Speakers, Chairman Senate  and all other parliamentarians have expressed.

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The senior PML-N leader was the chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation and a member of the Council of Chairpersons and various others standing committees.

He was also part of the parliamentary committees on Appointment of Chief Election Commissioner and Members of the National Security , Election Commission of Pakistan and  Kashmir committee.

He was an outspoken and aggressive PML-N loyalist.

Mushahidullah had no doubts about hitting his opponents below the belt and it seemed that this unflinching, aggressive loyalty is what endeared him to the Sharif brothers all these years.

“Following the Oct 1999 coup staged by retired General Pervez Musharraf, when most of the Sharifs’ comrades-in-arms jumped ship and joined the king’s party, Mushahidullah chose to take on the military strongman head on” Dawn report.

Within 24 hours of General Musharraf taking over, on Oct 13, Mushahidullah convened a press conference where he was less than flattering about the newly-imposed military regime and summarily resigned from the two lucrative positions he held at the time; as administrator of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and as adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Manpower.

For his troubles, he was imprisoned and, by his own admission, had to endure several “atrocities” perpetrated by the military regime of the time. Mushahidullah was a trusted aide of Nawaz ever since the latter was forced into exile.

First appointed party information secretary and later made a senator in 2009. Mushahidullah also served as the party spokesperson for many years.