Former caretaker premier Sardar Balakh Sher Mazari sadly passes away.
Sardar Mir Balakh Sher Khan Mazari, a former caretaker prime minister and the chief of the Mazari tribe, passed away on Friday, according to reports from Dera Ghazi Khan. He was 94.
In recent months, he was receiving care in a Lahore, Pakistan, private medical clinic. He attended Aitchison College in Lahore after being born in 1928 in Kot Karam.
In 1951–1952, Mir Balakh Sher was one of the tribal chiefs who signed an agreement allowing Punjab to absorb nine Baloch tribal lands in the Koh-i-Sulaiman range.
After then-president Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed the government of Nawaz Sharif in 1993, he was appointed interim prime minister. The Supreme Court, however, quickly reversed the president’s decree and reinstalled Nawaz Sharif, effectively ending his time in office.
He was the tribal chief of the Mazari people who lived in the tri-state region of Pakistan (Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan).
Mir Balakh Sher served as the seventh Mir and 22nd sardar of the Mazari people.
Both his son, Riyaz Mazari, and his grandson, Dost Muhammad Mazari, a former deputy speaker of the Punjab Assembly, are currently serving in parliament.
His late brother, Sher Baz Mazari, was also a politician and thinker with a progressive outlook.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, meanwhile, has expressed his sadness at Mir Balakh Sher’s passing.
Mr. Mazari’s contributions to the country, he added in a statement, would be remembered for generations. He prayed that the deceased’s soul would find peace with Allah and that the family would find strength to grieve.
