Taj Muhammad Jamali

Who was Taj Muhammad Jamali?

Mir Taj Muhammad Jamali was the former Balochistan chief minister and a veteran politician. He was the cousin of former Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali and present Deputy Chairman of Senate of Pakistan Jan Mohammad Jamali. All three cousins had, at different times, served as Chief Ministers of Balochistan between 17 November 1990 and 20 May 1993, during the third democratic period in Pakistan.

In April 2006, Taj Jamali offered to arrange a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and a Loya Jirga for peace in Balochistan.

Jamali died in Karachi on 2 April, 2009; he had been under a doctor's care for heart problems. He is to be interred in his ancestral town of Rojhan Jamali in the district of Jaffarabad, Pakistan.