Zafarullah Khan Jamali Politician
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (Balochi, Urdu: میر ظفراللہ خان جمالی; born 1 January 1944) is a nationalist conservative politician and former sports administrator who was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2002 until his resignation in 2004.Originally a supporter of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Jamali emerged from the politics of Balochistan Province under military governor Rahimuddin Khan during the 1970s. He became a national figure as part of the government of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and was Chief Minister of Balochistan for two non-consecutive terms (from June–December 1988 and November 1996 –February 1997). Although he was a senior leader in the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and Sharif's confidant, relations between Jamali and Sharif cooled and Jamali joined the dissidents' party after the 1999 coup led by General Pervez Musharraf. In the 2002 general election, Jamali won his bid for the office of Prime Minister after his supporters and colleagues crossed party lines to support him. On 21 November 2002 Jamali was appointed the 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first ethnic Baloch to hold the office.Jamali vowed to transform Pakistan's economy along broad free-market principles, implementing intensive economic shock therapy, price liberalisation and privatisation programmes. His political and economic philosophies emphasised macroeconomics, and he reformed financial services, revenue and taxation in an attempt to control foreign debt, hyperinflation and social problems. Jamali's economic policies expanded the GDP per capita to a record 13.6 percent. He oversaw the country's transformation from a two-party to a multiparty democracy system and constitutional restoration. On 26 June 2004 Jamali unexpectedly announced his resignation, handing the office to his economic minister Shaukat Aziz (although Shuja'at Hussain served as acting prime minister).
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| Birth date | January 01, 1944 |
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| office | Chief Minister of Balochistan Prime Minister of Pakistan |
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