- Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
imagesize = 200px
birth_date = birth date and age|1931|08|14
birth_place = New Jatoi village,Nawabshah District ,Sindh ,British India
office = 13thPrime Minister of Pakistan
president =Ghulam Ishaq Khan
term_start =6 August 1990
term_end =6 November 1990
predecessor =Benazir Bhutto
successor =Nawaz Sharif
religion =Sunni Islam
party =Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (
Urdu : غلام مصطفیٰ جتوئی) (born14 August 1931 ) is aPakistan i politician, and wasPrime Minister of Pakistan for 3 months, fromAugust 6 , 1990 toNovember 6 , 1990.Early life
Jatoi was born in the Province of
Sindh . He was the eldest of four brothers, and his grandfather,Khan Bahadur Imam Bux Khan Jatoi , was a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1923, 1927 and 1931. At the time there were only 4 members representing the entire Province of Sind.Jatoi was educated at
Karachi Grammar School and passed his senior Cambridge. In 1952, he went toEngland for his bar at law, but had to return home within one year due to his father's serious illness.Politics
Jatoi was elected to the first Provincial Assembly of
West Pakistan in 1958, and was re-elected in 1965. He has also serves as Chairman District Board of Nawabshah District in 1952, holding the distinction of being the youngest District Board Chairman on the sub-continent.Jatoi joined Pakistan People's Party in March 1969. In 1970, he was elected to the
National Assembly on PPP ticket. He held the Portfolios of Political Affairs, Ports and Shipping, Communications, Natural Resources, Railways & Telecommunications in the Federal Government headed by Prime MinisterZulfiqar Ali Bhutto . In 1973, he was electedChief Minister of Sindh , and held this office till 1977. He has the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Sindh since the birth of Pakistan. After the imposition ofMartial Law , Jatoi remained associated with theMovement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD). Twice he was arrested in 1983 and 1985.Later, he founded the
National Peoples Party . A number of political heavyweights from all over the country were brought into the National People’s Party, launched under the chairmanship of Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi. Among them wereGhulam Mustafa Khar ,Haneef Ramay , SM Zafar ,Hamid Raza Gilani ,Malik Hamid Sarfraz ,Ghaus Bux Raeesani ,Kamal Azfar ,Mian Sajid Pervaiz ,Nafees Siddiqui ,Rana Muhammad Haneef ,Akhtar Hussain Shah ,Rabbani Khar andAftab Shah Gilani . An attractive manifesto was prepared and the party was expected to shoot into prominence in no time due to the declining popularity of the Peoples Party at the time.The NPP and the PML, then headed by
Muhammad Khan Junejo , along with 7 other political parties, contested the 1988 elections from the platform of theIslami Jamhoori Ittehad . The PPP won the bout, though with a thin majority.Interim Prime Minister
He was the Founder President of
Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) formed in 1988. In 1989, he was elected to theNational Assembly in by-elections fromKot Addu . Jatoi was subsequently elected leader of the combined opposition parties in the National Assembly in 1989.Mr. Jatoi was appointed Prime Minister after the dismissal of the
Benazir government on corruption and incompetence charges by PresidentGhulam Ishaq Khan . In protest at the autocratic tendencies of theNawaz Sharif , the then Prime Minister, Mr. Jatoi joined hands with the opposition lead byBenazir Bhutto in launching a movement against the Sharif government, resulting in its dismissal in 1993.The NPP contested the 1993 elections and later joined the Benazir Bhutto government as a coalition partner till the Governments dismissal in 1996 by the PPP President Farooq Leghari. In the 2002 general election, it was the dominant partner in a new group called the National Alliance which was Chaired by him. The National Alliance won 16 seats in the national Assembly, 16 seats in the
Sindh Assembly and 3 Senate Seats.In the 2008 election his son Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi won election in NA-211
Naushahro Feroze -I under the banner of the National Peoples Party, defeating the runner-up PPP candidate, holding the seat won in 2002 by Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Khan Jatoi under the National Alliance banner. His Other Son, Arif Mustafa Jatoi (Former Food and Agriculture Minister) won PS-19 and another Son, Masroor Jatoi won PS-23, Both being Provincial Assembly Seats. This has set a probable record wherein 4 sons are simultaneously present in all 3 Legislative forums, i.e. Provincial Assembly, National Assembly and Senate. Another NPP candidate also won PS-12 Shikarpur, Abid Hussain Jatoi, holding the seat he won in 2002.Personal life
Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi has 5 sons and 3 daughters. Murtaza Jatoi, Masroor Jatoi, Tariq Jatoi (Deceased), Arif Mustafa Jatoi (Former Minister for Food and Agriculture) and current Member of the
Sindh Provincial Assembly and Asif Mustafa Jatoi currently serving as a Senator.External links
* [http://pakistanspace.tripod.com/47.htm Chronicles Of Pakistan]
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Chief Minister of Sindh
years=25 December ,1973 -5 July ,1977
before=Mumtaz Bhutto
after=Ghous Ali Shah succession box |title=
Prime Minister of Pakistan (caretaker)
years=6 August ,1990 -6 November ,1990
before=Benazir Bhutto
after=Nawaz Sharif
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