Mir Taj Muhammad Jamali was the former Balochistan

Balochistan (Pakistan)

Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...

 chief minister

Chief Minister

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 and a veteran politician. He was the cousin of former Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Pakistan

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 Zafarullah Khan Jamali

Zafarullah Khan Jamali

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was the 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan and former Chairman of the Pakistan Hockey Federation.-Early life:Born in Baluchistan, Jamali was the second Baluch Prime Minister of Pakistan...

 and present Deputy Chairman of Senate of Pakistan

Senate of Pakistan

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 Jan Mohammad Jamali

Jan Mohammad Jamali

Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali is a politician from Jaffarabad, Balochistan, Pakistan. He is the son of prominent Baloch leader Mir Noor Mahmmad Jamali. Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali was first elected as a member of Provincial Assembly of Balochistan in 1997. He was Chairman of the Pakistani Senate until...

. All three cousins had, at different times, served as Chief Ministers of Balochistan

Chief Minister of Balochistan

The Chief Minister of Balochistan is elected by the Provincial Assembly of the Balochistan to serve as the head of the provincial government in Balochistan, Pakistan. The current Chief Minister is Aslam Raisani of the Pakistan Peoples Party...

 between 17 November 1990 and 20 May 1993, during the third democratic period in Pakistan (1988-1999).

In April 2006, Taj Jamali offered to arrange a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf

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and a Loya Jirga (grand 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.