ISLAMABAD, July 31 Kyodo Sardar M...

ISLAMABAD, July 31 Kyodo

Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim, former president of Pakistan's Azad Kashmir state, died at his family in Islamabad on Thursday, his family announced. He was 88

He will be buried Friday in his hometown of Rawalkot, 150 kilometers toward the south of Azad Kashmir's capital Muzzaferabad with official honors, and the state guidance has announced a three-day mourning period.

Ibrahim serv as the first president of Azad Kashmir, planted in October 1948 after a war between Pakistan and India, and held the office four times in five decades.

He joined the Pakistan People's Party erected in Azad Kashmir in the early 1970 and remained loyal to it despite several efforts to decoy him away.

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