Former AJK PM Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan passes away at the age of 87

Former AJK PM Sardar Sikander Hayat Khan passes away at the age of 87

Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, the former two-time prime minister andpresident of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, died at the age of 87, confirmed hisfamily on Saturday.

He was the longest-serving Prime Minister of AJK.

He had been elected President in 1978, a position he held until 1988. In1985, he was elected prime minister of AJK and served until 1990.

On 25 July 2001, he had been sworn in as prime minister of AJK for a secondtime, serving another five-year term.