ISLAMABAD, JAN 02 (DNA) – Port Qasim Authority (PQA) Secretary Mohammad Saqib suffered a heart attack during a session of the Senate’s standing committee on maritime affairs in Islamabad on Tuesday and passed away.

Saqib was briefing the session when he went into cardiac arrest. He was rushed to a hospital but he expired during treatment.

Sources said the PQA secretary was taken to the hospital in Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani’s vehicle as there was no ambulance available nearby.