Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
{{short description|Pakistani politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = Nawab
| name = Ghous Bakhsh Raisani
| image = Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani in Mehrgarh.tif
| caption = Raisani in Mehrgarh, February 1987
| order = 2nd Governor of Balochistan
| term_start = 26 December 1971
| term_end = 19 April 1972
| chiefminister =
| successor = Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
| predecessor = Riaz Hussain
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|9|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kanak, Kalat State, British India {{small|(present-day Kanak, Balochistan, Pakistan)}}
| spouse =
| party = Pakistan People's Party
| children =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|5|26|1924|9|6|df=y}}
| death_place = Mehrgarh, Balochistan, Pakistan
}}
Nawab Mir Ghous Bakhsh Khan Raisani (6 September 1924 {{endash}} 26 May 1987), was a Pakistani politician{{Cite news |author=Butt, Qaiser |title=Exclusive interview: Raisani lashes out, claims PPP humiliated him |newspaper=The Express Tribune |date=30 March 2013 |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/528584/exclusive-interview-raisani-lashes-out-claims-ppp-humiliated-him/ |accessdate=14 May 2016}}{{Cite book |author=Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif |title=The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements |publisher=Routledge |date=4 May 2012 |page=65 |isbn=978-1-136-33696-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0b0epgzkrz8C&q=Ghous+Bakhsh+Raisani+governor&pg=PA65}} who served as the first Civilian governor of Balochistan from 26 December 1971 to 29 April 1972.{{cite web | title=Former Governors of Balochistan | website=Governor House Balochistan | date=1970-07-01 | url=http://www.governorbalochistan.gov.pk/former.html | access-date=2020-11-21}} He was also a federal minister for Food and Agriculture and the provincial president of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Biography
Raisani was born on September 6, 1924, in Kanak, Khuzdar District, Kalat State.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} Son of late Nawab Bahadur Sir Asadullah Khan Raisani. He studied in the famous Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun. The school is well known for its discipline throughout India. In his Early day he served as a major in British Army during British Raj He was later appointed as the chief of Sarawan, the Tumandar of all tribes in the Sarawan region upon the death of his father Late Nawab Bahadur Sir Asadullah Khan Raisani. He was the father of Aminullah Khan Raisani, Asadullah Khan Raisani, Aslam Khan Raisani, Abdul Nabi Khan Raisani, Lashkari Khan Raisani, Ismail Khan Raisani, Siraj Khan Raisani, Umar Khan Raisani, Nauroze Khan Raisani.
Death
He was killed in 1987 along with his four bodyguards in Mehrgarh area of Kachhi District.{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-27-mn-1685-story.html |title=Gunmen Kill Pakistani Opposition Politician |website=Los Angeles Times}} jhal dab rasani
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Category:Pakistan People's Party politicians
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