Veteran Kashmiri leader Sardar Qayyum recovers from heart ailment
Pakistan Times Kashmir Desk

ISLAMABAD: Veteran Kashmiri leader, Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan is now, fairly in good health and would expectantly be relieved from hospital in a day or two.

With this update, the President of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan told ‘Pakistan Times’ late on Saturday night that the venerated leader of the Himalayan State has been shifted to a VIP suite from CCU of the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology [AFIC] in Rawalpindi and is now accessible to his admirers.

Sardar Qayyum, popularly known as ‘Mujahid-e-Awwal’ was admitted at the AFIC almost a week ago after having felt pain in the chest.

A team of experienced and highly capable physicians and surgeons undertook comprehensive medical check up of the herald of the Kashmiri’s cause and advised for him a complete bed rest, with no meeting with any-one.

Yet this embargo was lifted, the moment Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, who is also the Supreme Head of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, the ruling party in Azad Kashmir was shifted to a private room of the VIP zone of the hospital, late on Saturday.

Feeling Quite Well

‘Yes, Alhamd-o-Lilla, he is now feeling quite well and is likely to get back home, the Mujahid Manzil in Satellite Town’ was the reply of Sardar Attique when asked about the latest position of the health of the much-admired Kashmiri leader.

Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, the chief of the AJKMC, who was on an overseas visit cut-short his voyage and flew back to Pakistan from the UK, soon after hearing the news of the ailment of his distinguished father, the Mujahid-e-Awwal.●