KUWAIT: Former prime minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah passed away on Saturday. He was 82.

Sheikh Jaber headed the government between 2011 and 2019, when he resigned. He started his government career as early as in 1968 as a senior official at the Amiri Diwan.

Eleven years later, he was appointed governor of Hawally and Ahmadi before he was appointed as minister of social affairs and labour and later minister of information.

In 2001, he was appointed minister of defense, and five years later was appointed as first deputy premier and minister of defense and interior until 2011, when he was appointed as prime minister.

Sheikh Jaber was admitted in hospitals inside and outside the country several times for treatment before his demise.