PESHAWAR: Awami National Party leader and former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa agriculture minister Arbab Ayub Jan breathed his last in the United States on Monday, family and party said.

The deceased is survived by four sons.

A statement issued by the ANP here said Jan had died in the US and that the schedule of his funeral would be announced af terwards.

Qasim Jan, personal assistant to Arbab AyubJan, told Dawn that Jan, who had been staying with his son in the US state of Oklahoma since July, had suffered stroke a week ago.

Born in 1944, Jan studied at Islamia Collegiate School and Edwardes College Peshawar and did his master`s in History from University of Peshawar in 1966.

His first political foray came under General Ziaul Haq`s local government elections when he was elected district councillor.-Bureau Report