Pak PM Imran Khan's teacher Geoffrey Langlands dies

Major (retd.) Geoffrey Langlands, a former British officer who stayed on in Pakistan after the end of the colonial rule and became one of the country's most famous educators, with students including Prime Minister Imran Khan, died in Lahore on Wednesday. He was 101.

Langlands has been honoured with Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Order of British Empire by the Queen of England for his contribution to humanity and education.

Among Langlands' students were Prime Minister Khan and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

"Saddened to learn of the passing of my teacher. Apart from being our teacher, he instilled the love for trekking and our northern areas in me - before the KKH was built," Khan tweeted along with pictures of him with Langlands.

"I was 12 years old in the school (Aitchison College Lahore) picture," he said.

British High Commissioner Thomas Drew said Pakistan has "lost a great friend and teacher of generations of its students."