Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (30 September 1929 – 26 June 2021), spelled "Khosa" in the English article, was a Pakistani jurist who served as caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013, appointed by the Election Commission to conduct the 2013 general elections. Before that he had been chief justice of the Balochistan High Court, twice briefly governor of Balochistan, and chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court. ^{1 2}

He was born on 30 September 1929 at Goth Azam Khan village in the Jaffarabad District of Balochistan, of Baloch ethnicity. In his youth he took an active part in the Pakistan Movement and counted Muhammad Ali Jinnah as his inspiration. He attended the University of Sindh from 1950 and graduated with a BA in 1954, and two years later secured a law degree from the University of Karachi. ^{1 3}

He began practice in 1957 as a lawyer of the Karachi bench of the West Pakistan High Court and became a Supreme Court lawyer in 1980. He was a public prosecutor at Jacobabad from 1966 to 1976 and taught at the Government Law College in Quetta. Appointed a judge of the Balochistan High Court in 1977, he served two years, returned as an additional judge in March 1985, was confirmed a permanent judge in 1987, and was elevated to chief justice of the Balochistan High Court in 1989. He twice governed Balochistan briefly, from 25 June to 12 July 1990 and from 13 March to 13 July 1991. On retirement from the provincial bench he joined the Federal Shariat Court in 1991 and was its chief justice from 1992 to 1994; the article also records his selection as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1994 to 1996, his membership of the Pakistan Public Service Commission from 1986 to 2001, and his chairmanship of the Balochistan Zakat Council. ¹

On 24 March 2013 the Election Commission of Pakistan appointed him caretaker prime minister, choosing him from four nominees of the dissolved government and the opposition, and he took the oath on 25 March 2013. As caretaker he held limited power and was tasked only with holding elections within a few months; his fourteen-member cabinet was sworn in on 2 April 2013, and he served until the elected government took office on 5 June 2013. ¹

He died on 26 June 2021 at the age of 91; the English article's infobox and Wikidata place his death at Quetta. ^{1 3}

No text names a religion or school for him. The Arabic article's infobox gives Islam in general, and Wikidata's religion claim is likewise Islam in general — structured values only. His chief justiceship of the Federal Shariat Court was judicial office, not an attestation of a personal school. His faith is therefore recorded as unclassified. ^{2 3 1}

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