 His governorship and Sherpao himself tackled and faced intense communist opposition led by Abdul Wali Khan, and was assassinated in a targeted bomb explosion on the campus of Peshawar University in 1975.Hayat Sherpao was born in 1937 to Khan Bahadar Ghulam Haider Khan Sherpao who was a leader in the Pakistan Movement.A Muhammadzai by tribe, he was born in the influential Sherpao family of the North West Frontier Province.