Overview
- Geo News and other outlets confirmed his death Monday in Islamabad after days of treatment, coinciding with a Senate sitting scheduled to take up the 27th Constitutional Amendment.
- His family earlier confirmed ICU care for breathing issues and urged the public to ignore unverified online claims about his condition.
- Accounts of ventilator use conflicted during the day, with relatives initially denying it as later reports said he was placed on a ventilator before his passing.
- Siddiqui served as the PML-N’s parliamentary leader in the Senate, sat on multiple committees, and was a longtime Daily Jang columnist.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued condolences, praising his contributions to Pakistan’s democratic life.