Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

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Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi
Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan
In office 6 August 1990 – 6 November 1990
President	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Preceded by	Benazir Bhutto
Succeeded by	Nawaz Sharif
14th Chief Minister of Sindh
In office 25 December 1973 – 5 July 1977
Governor	Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan Muhammad Dilawar Khanji
Preceded by	Mumtaz Bhutto
Succeeded by	Ghous Ali Shah
Personal details
Born	(1931-08-14)14 August 1931 Pakistan Peoples Party (Before 1986) National Peoples Party (1986–2009)
Children	Arif Mustafa Jatoi (son) Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi (son)
Relatives	Liaquat Ali Jatoi (nephew)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (

of Sarhandi.

Early life

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was born in

, was a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1923, 1927 and 1931. At the time there were only four members representing the entire present Province of Sindh.

His father Ghulam Rasool Jatoi was a member of the Sindh Legislative Assembly twice in 1946 and again 1952, after which one unit was imposed in West Pakistan.

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.

Mr Jatoi was an active leader in politics. He was one of the founding members of Pakistan Peoples Party along with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He was one of Bhutto's closest confidants until Bhutto's execution in 1979. He remained associated with the PPP until 1986 when he formed his own party with its emblem of a tractor, becoming one of Pakistan's political leaders with his own political party.

Politics

Jatoi was elected to the first Provincial Assembly of

.

Jatoi along with Z.A. Bhutto and other politicians formed Pakistan People's Party in 1967. He has been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1962, 1965, 1970, 1989, 1990, 1993 and 1997. He has also been elected to the Sindh Provincial Assembly in 1973 and 1977.

He held the Portfolios of Political Affairs, Ports and Shipping, Communications, Petroleum and Natural Resources, Information Technology, Railways & Telecommunications in the Federal Government headed by Prime Minister

(MRD). Twice he was arrested in 1983 and 1985.

Later, he founded the

. An attractive manifesto was prepared and the party was expected to gain prominence due to the declining popularity of the Peoples Party at the time.

The NPP and the PML, then headed by

. The PPP won the bout, though with a thin majority.

Interim Prime Minister

He was the Founder President of

Kot 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 Bhutto 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 led by 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 until the Governments dismissal in 1996 by the PPP President

seats.

Family

In the

-I under the banner of the National Peoples Party, defeating the runner-up PPP candidate and 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 Provincial Assembly Seats. The Youngest son is Senator Asif Mustafa Jatoi. This has set a record wherein four sons are simultaneously present in all three Legislative forums, i.e. Provincial Assembly, National Assembly and Senate.

Death

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi died in London on Friday November 2009 after a protracted illness at the age of 78.[1]

Book

• Ghula Mustafa Khan Jatoi, a Distinguihed Parliamentarian: Selected Speeches, 1962-1990, Alvi Publishers, 1997, 166 p.

External links

• Chronicles Of Pakistan

Political offices
Preceded by Mumtaz Bhutto	Chief Minister of Sindh 1973–1977	Succeeded by Ghous Ali Shah
Preceded by Benazir Bhutto	Prime Minister of Pakistan Caretaker 1990	Succeeded by Nawaz Sharif

References