Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson’s advisory council member and former secretary Sabih Uddin Ahmed died on Monday at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 76.

Sabih Uddin, who had been undergoing treatment at United Hospital after suffering a brain stroke, breathed his last at about 7:35am, BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said.

He is survived by his wife, one son and a daughter to mourn his death.

Hearing the news of his demise, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir rushed to Sabih Uddin’s Gulshan residence. He talked to the bereaved family members and convoyed his sympathy to them.

Fakhrul and Sabih Uddin Ahmed were students of the same batch of Economics Department at Dhaka University and they were close friends in personal life.

Completing his education, Sabih Uddin Ahmed joined the Pakistan Civil Service. After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the information officer of different ministers.

He served as the private secretary to the then prime minister Khaleda Zia in 1991. Later he returned to the information cadre.

In 2001, Sabih Uddin Ahmed joined the ministry of environment and forests as Secretary. Later he was appointed as Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK.

After retiring as a secretary, Sabih Uddin Ahmed actively joined BNP politics and was appointed as a foreign affairs advisor of the party chairperson.

He became inactive in politics from 2017 as he had been suffering from neurological complications.