By IANS
Kolkata : Shahid Ahmed Khan, the eastern India chief of news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), passed away Saturday. He was 48.
Khan, who is survived by his wife and two daughters, was battling cancer for the past two years. The end came at a city nursing home at around 11.20 a.m.
A popular figure in the journalism circles here, Khan worked as PTI's Islamabad correspondent for nearly three years and won admiration for his coverage of the dislodging of the Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 and the events that followed thereafter.
He joined PTI in 1984 as a sports correspondent but soon proved his mettle in other streams of journalism too. He covered business for many years and also dabbled in other branches of reporting.
In 1997, Khan was posted in Islamabad where he worked till 2000.
He came back to Kolkata and became the regional manager of the agency and looked after the entire eastern region.
The Kolkata Press Club and the city's journalist fraternity have expressed deep sorrow on his premature death.