This photo of Mir Jam Mohammad Yousuf taken outside a court in October 2012. PHOTO: ONLINE/FILE
The former chief minister was in his Islamabad apartment when he suffered from a cardiac arrest.
Born in 1954, he bears the title of Jam of Lasbela, the former princely state of Lasbela in Balochistan and was part of the Lasi tribe.
He served as chief minister of Balochistan from March 2002 to December 2007 under dictator General Pervez Musharaf. Currently he had the portfolio of minister for privatisation.
It was under his government that former governor of Balochistan Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a military operation. Yousuf was currently out on bail having been named in a case over the murder of Akbar Bugti.
He was the Balochistan president of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
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Eik aur shaheed-e-Jamhuriat!
He was good person and Pakistani,few in Bolachistan are on sale and works for others, blackmailing and miss using public money is an art.Poor Bolachis are still poor and funds are eaten by few sardars in every govt and blame entire Pakistan.By design keeping it under developed for others exploitation.
"The evil that men do lives after them.............." Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
Suo Motto? Pin this on the government too?
Every living being has to meet its death............those who who act as gods in the life of poors and ordinary..........meet the end similar to them. we all leave this world empty handed.........and meet our graves............wish all our pirs, sardars, waderas, nawabs and seths remember their real worth and real end.