Jam of Lasbela
Jam of Lasbela ( ur, or ) was the princely title of Las Bela State in Balochistan of Pakistan.
Las Bela State was a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British Raj (later a princely state of Pakistan) which existed until 1955. The s ...
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
province of
Pakistan
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.
Background and family
Mir Jam Mohammad Yousaf was born in 1954 at Lasbela,
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
. He belonged to the Koreja Family of Samma Tribe who ruled over Sindh.
Political career
Yousaf served as the
Chief Minister
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of
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
province from 2002 to 2007. He was the
Minister for Water and Power
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List of Ministers for Water and Power of Pakistan
See also
*Constitution of P ...
,
Railways
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and a
Minister
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* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
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in
Balochistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
assembly. Previously he held positions as MNA and MPA in the National and Balochistan Provincial Assembly. He was the Provincial President of PML (Q) from 2002.
Nawab Bugti Murder Case
On 7 October 2009, a single bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Essa accepted an application of Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, the eldest son of former Balochistan Governor and Chief Minister Nawab Akbar Bugti, alleging that Yousaf, along with former President Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister
Shaukat Aziz
Shaukat Aziz ( ur, ; born 6 March 1949) is a Pakistani former banker and financier who served as 17th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007, as well as the finance minister of Pakistan from 6 November 1999 to 15 ...
, was responsible for the killing of his father on 26 August 2006, in a military operation.
BHC ordered the sub-house officer of Dera Bugti to register a first investigation report against Yousaf. On 9 January 2010, the Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected Yousaf's plea against the BHC orders to file a case against him in the Nawab Bugti murder case.
In 2012, Jamil Bugti formally nominated Yousaf in his police report alleging that the former chief minister was responsible for his father's killing. On 17 July 2012, the BHC granted Yousaf interim bail in the case.BHC grants interim bail to former CM in Bugti murder case dawn.com. Accessed 30 January 2023.
Death
Jam Mohammad Yousaf died of cardiac arrest on 3 February 2013 in
Islamabad
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, and was buried in
Bara Bagh Cemetery, Lasbela
Bara Bagh Cemetery, Lasbela is an ancient cemetery of the Jams of Lasbela of the Lasbela princely state, containing more than 100 graves of which 40 belong to the Jams.
Location
It is located at Bara Bagh, eight kilometers away from Lasbela Dist ...