Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 6 August 1990 – 6 November 1990
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Preceded by	Benazir Bhutto
Succeeded by	Nawaz Sharif
Born	August 14 1931 (1931--) (age 76) Sindhri, Tharparkar, Sindh, British India
Political party	Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Religion	Sunni Islam

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (Urdu: غلام مصطفیٰ جتوئی) (born 14 August 1931) is a Pakistani politician, and was Prime Minister of Pakistan for 3 months, from August 6, 1990 to November 6, 1990.

Early Life

Jatoi was born in the Province of Sindh. He was the eldest of four brothers, and his father, Khan Bahadur Ghulam Rasul Khan Jatoi, was a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1923, 1927 & 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 to England 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 Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. In 1973, he was elected Chief Minister of the 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. He was re-elected in March 1977. After the imposition of Martial Law, Jatoi remained associated with the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD). Twice he was arrested in 1983 and 1985.

Later, he founded the National People's 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 were Ghulam 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, Rabbani Khar and Aftab 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 Mr Junejo, along with 7 other political parties, contested the 1988 elections from the platform of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad. The PPP won the bout, though with a thin majority.

Interim Prime Minister

In 1989, he was elected to the National Assembly in by-elections from Kot Addu. After joining Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), Jatoi was 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 President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. In protest at the autocratic tendencies of the Nawaz Sharif, the then Prime Minister, Mr. Jatoi joined hands with the opposition lead by Benazir 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 1997 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.

Personal Life

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi has 4 sons and 3 daughters. His eldest son is Mir Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi, then Masroor Jatoi, Arif Mustafa Jatoi a 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

• Chronicles Of Pakistan

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