Senior journalist Yusuf Khan died of heart attack here on Wednesday evening. He was 54. He leaves behind wife, two sons and one daughter. Khan was Deputy Resident Editor-cum-Chief Reporter of Nawa-e-Waqt, a newspaper he served since the late 1970s. Younger brother of the late journalist Irshad Ahmad Khan, he was endowed with a very strong wit.
Khan was equally impressive in his columns carried by the sister publication The Nation. For the past many years, he was a known face on various TV channels where he used to appear as a Karachi-based political analyst. Khan, who was a first class first position holder from Karachi University's Journalism Department, served Karachi Press Club as its secretary.