MARDAN: Prominent leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former provincial speaker Abdul Akbar Khan died of cardiac arrest on Thursday. He was 68. Abdul Akbar Khan had been suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure and other ailments since long. He had been admitted to the Al-Shafa Hospital, Islamabad, a few weeks back after his condition deteriorated. His funeral prayer was offered at Spenkai village, Palodheri, and was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard. A large number of locals, politicians, PPP leaders and workers attended his funeral prayers. Born at Spenkai village in Mardan on September 1, 1949, Abdul Akbar Khan had done LLB. His father Sher Akbar Khan was a local landowner.