National security advisor JN Dixit passes away

By Our Economy Bureau | 03 Jan 2005

New Delhi: National Security Advisor and former foreign secretary, J N Dixit, passed away today after a massive heart attack. He is survived by a wife and two daughters.

Sixty eight-year-old Dixit, who had served in all the South Asian countries except Maldives, was brought dead to the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences around 6.30 am, after he had suffered a massive heart attack at home, sources said.

Dixit was appointed national security advisor in May last year, succeeding Brajesh Mishra.

He was the high commissioner in Colombo in 1987 when India signed an accord with the LTTE and sent the Indian Peace Keeping Forces to the Tamil area of the island nation at the height of ethnic crisis.