Jam Awais Bijar Khan Jokhio | |
Birth Date: | 1982 1, df=yes |
Office: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh |
Term Start: | 13 August 2018 |
Constituency: | PS-79 Thatta-III |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Pakistan Peoples Party |
Relatives: | Jam Abdul Karim Bijar (brother) |
Term End: | 11 August 2023 |
Jam Awais Bijar Khan Jokhio is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from August 2018 till August 2023.
He was born on 12 January 1982 and did BA.[1]
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party from Constituency PS-79 (Thatta-III) in 2018 Pakistani general election.[2]
He and his brother Jam Abdul Karim Bijar tortured and murdered a local journalist Nazim Jokhio on 3 November 2021. Reportedly, the 27-year-old victim tried to stop the guests of Jokhio from hunting houbara bustard in Thatta.[3] FIR was registered against Jokhio and he was taken into police custody.[4] He, along with 7 of his servants and guards, were indicted by a Karachi sessions court on 10 December 2022, Bijar plead not guilty to the charges and would contest them.[5]