Former premier of Pakistan dies

Islamabad – Pakistan’s former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who served under military leader Pervez Musharraf, has died, his family announced.

The 76 year old died in the city of Rawalpindi outside Islamabad on Wednesday, after recently suffering a heart attack, his son Mir Muhammad Khan Jamali said.

Jamali was elected prime minister but with limited powers in November 2002, when president Musharraf allowed parliamentary elections to take place after he took power in a bloodless 1999 coup.

Jamali stepped down in the summer of 2004, after developing differences with the party leadership and Musharraf, paving the way for Shaukat Aziz to fi ll the post. –