* Justice (R) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is the 23rd and current caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, appointed on 24 March 2013.
* Khoso was born on 30 September 1929 in Goth Azam Khan village in the Jaffarabad District of the South-East Balochistan, Pakistan.
* Khoso is a retired Judge who previously served as the Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court and is currently serving as the interim Prime Minister ahead of the general elections scheduled in May this year.
* Khoso, who is known for his simplicity, began his professional career in 1957 as a lawyer of then West Pakistan Karachi Bench and then became a Supreme Court lawyer in 1980.
* He became a judge at Balochistan High Court in 1977 and served that position for next two years.
* He was reappointed as an additional judge in March 1985 and he was confirmed as a permanent judge of the provincial high court in 1987.
* He was elevated as the chief justice of Balochistan High Court in 1989.
* He was appointed as governor of Balochistan twice but for brief periods. Firstly he governed the province from June 25 until July 12 in 1990 and from March 13 1991 until July 13 in 1991.
* Khoso was appointed as a judge of the Federal Shariat Court that rules according to Islamic injunction. After assuming his new responsibilities in 1991 the next year he was promoted as the chief justice of the Shariat Court and continued to be so until 1994.
* Because of his integrity and clean reputation, Khoso currently serves as the Balochistan Chairman of the Zakat Council, a position that demands both uprightness and responsibility.
* The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) appointed Khoso as the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan on 24 March 2013, out of four nominees coming from both the opposition and the dissolved government. He took oath on 25 March 2013.
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