'People's candidate' Ambar Shahzada dies.

LAHORE -- One of the most attention grabber candidates during every election for decades, Nawab Dr Ambar Shahzada breathed his last on Monday afternoon. He was 59 and is survived by his wife.

Born in 1964 in Faisalabad in a business family, Ambar developed his interest in politics during his stay at the then Government College, now a university, where he did his master's in philosophy.

After his master's, he formed 'Aap, Janab, Sarkar Party', and started contesting elections from the late 80s. He used to claim he has contested more elections than any other politician in the world, which he claimed were 50.

'He was one of those guys of the 80s who broke the seriousness of politics,' says one of his classmates from GC days. In those days, two more characters (Saleem Kirla and Sharif Diwa) also contested elections, but Amber turned out to be more persistent and continued with politics.

What made him a headline grabber was that he never begged for votes...