Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan (1912-76) was the last ruler or Mir of Hunza of the former princely state, known as Hunza. He was born on September 23, 1912. After the mysterious death of his father, Mir Ghazanfar Khan in April, 1945 he became the ruler. After a mass movement in Gojal, Brushal and Shinaki (parts of Hunza) the despotic 950 years’ Mir rule in Hunza came to an end in 1974, when Z. A. Bhutto , the Prime Minister of Pakistan abolished the state and annexed it to the Northern Areas of Pakistan under the federal government. Two years after his dismissel from power, Muhammad Jamal Khan expired as a common citizen of Pakistan on March 18, 1976 at his residence in Karim Abad the former capital of Hunza. He had married a princess of the former state of Nagar in 1934. Some of his family members now use words of Mir, Rani, prince and Raja etc but actually they are no longer in power. After the abolition of the state the world was opened to the poor people of Hunza and only after that they started getting higher education, which was not allowed (to the common people) during the Mir rule.

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• Pakistan's Northern Areas dilemma
• Northern Areas Development Gateway
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• Northern Pakistan's Karakoram & Hindukush Mountains
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• Gilgit Map
• Not ‘Mir of Hunza’