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Ghulam Ishaq Khan

1915 - 2006

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Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993. He previously served as chairman of the Senate from 1985 to 1988 under president Zia-ul-Haq, and assumed the presidency in accordance with the constitutional line of succession following Zia's death . Raised in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khan graduated from Peshawar University and entered the Indian Civil Service, opting for Pakistan after the independence in 1947. Appointed the first chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority by President Ayub Khan in 1961, Ghulam Ishaq also served as Finance Secretary from 1966 to 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ghulam Ishaq Khan is the 8,871st most popular politician (up from 10,103rd in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 47th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 8,871 out of 19,576. Before him are Manlio Brosio, Sergio Balanzino, Pandarus, Ferdinand von Bredow, Petru Rareș, and Kamo. After him are José Félix Estigarribia, John Doukas, Roger III of Sicily, Thyra, Tato, and Akhtar Mansour.

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Among people born in 1915, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 94. Before him are Kiyosi Itô, Horst Sindermann, Thomas Merton, William Masters, Arsenio Erico, and Kon Ichikawa. After him are Wilhelm Gliese, Marais Viljoen, Evgeny Lifshitz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Georgy Sviridov, and André Frossard. Among people deceased in 2006, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 121. Before him are Coretta Scott King, Marie Tharp, Faas Wilkes, Billy Preston, Allen Carr, and Marek Grechuta. After him are Jurij Brězan, Esther Lederberg, Alberto Spencer, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Silva Kaputikyan, and Don Thompson.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 51 out of 217. Before him are Babita (1947), Naropa (1016), Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Amrita Pritam (1919), Khema (-550), and Krishna Sobti (1925). After him are Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Lokaksema (147), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), and Rahman Baba (1632).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 25. Before him are Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Imran Khan (1952), Raja Dahir (663), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), and Khema (-550). After him are Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Farooq Leghari (1940), and Taxiles (-400).

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