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Farooq Leghari

1940 - 2010

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Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari (Urdu: سردار فاروق احمد خان لغاری; 29 May 1940 – 20 October 2010) was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He was the first Baloch to be elected as President. Born into a Baloch tribal and influential feudal family, Leghari was educated at Aitchison College, the Forman Christian College in Pakistan, and St Catherine's College, Oxford in United Kingdom. Upon return from the UK, he sat for the Civil Services Exam in 1964 and started his career as a civil servant, remained commissioner sargodha division, prior to getting in to politics in 1973 and tenured as Senator representing the Punjab on the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) platform from 1975 to 1977. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Farooq Leghari is the 11,467th most popular politician (up from 12,347th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 60th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Farooq Leghari ranks 11,467 out of 19,576. Before him are Caspar Weinberger, Konstantinos Demertzis, John I of Trebizond, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Rawhi Fattouh, and Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad. After him are Claude Pompidou, Aeropus II of Macedon, Daniel O'Connell, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Mutassim Gaddafi, and Audata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Farooq Leghari ranks 240. Before him are Stan Mikita, Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, Bob Hewitt, Thelma Schoonmaker, Nicola Di Bari, and Jill St. John. After him are Matthias Habich, John Mahoney, Donald Jackson, Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, Smokey Robinson, and Ken Jenkins. Among people deceased in 2010, Farooq Leghari ranks 173. Before him are Zilda Arns, Nicola Cabibbo, Anna Walentynowicz, Pernell Roberts, Theo Albrecht, and Bobbejaan Schoepen. After him are Tom Bosley, Armand Razafindratandra, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Brian G. Marsden, Allan Sandage, and Larry Evans.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 64 out of 217. Before him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Dilip Kumar (1922), Nek Chand (1924), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Francis Younghusband (1863), and Lal Bokhari (1909). After him are Kumail Nanjiani (1978), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Taxiles (-400), Tariq Ali (1943), Manoj Kumar (1937), and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 30. Before him are Khema (-550), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), and Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929). After him are Taxiles (-400), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (1988), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Shah Mahmood Qureshi (1956), L. K. Advani (1927), and J. B. Kripalani (1888).

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