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Salmaan Taseer

1944 - 2011

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Salman Taseer (Urdu: سلمان تاثیر; (1944-05-31)31 May 1944 – 4 January 2011) was a Pakistani businessman and politician, who served as the 34th Governor of Punjab from 2008 until his assassination in 2011. A member of the Pakistan Peoples Party since the 1980s, he was elected to the Punjab Assembly from Lahore in the 1988 election, however lost in 1990, 1993 and then in 1997. Taseer served as a minister in the caretaker cabinet of Prime Minister Muhammad Mian Soomro under Pervez Musharraf during the 2008 elections. He was appointed as the governor of Punjab on 15 May 2008, by then-President Musharraf at the request of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salmaan Taseer is the 5,033rd most popular politician (up from 16,740th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from India (up from 842nd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Salmaan Taseer ranks 5,033 out of 19,576. Before him are Max Amann, Kim Kyu-sik, Emperor Go-Uda, Pat Brown, Kigeli V of Rwanda, and Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure. After him are Antilochus, Charles the Younger, Emperor Kōgon, Sancha of León, Ivan Sirko, and John VIII, Count of Vendôme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Salmaan Taseer ranks 128. Before him are Michael Nyman, Geneviève Grad, Günter Netzer, Ram Chandra Poudel, Ren Zhengfei, and Rexhep Meidani. After him are Leila Khaled, Seán Patrick O'Malley, Chico Buarque, Francis Lee, Robert Powell, and Luis Ladaria Ferrer. Among people deceased in 2011, Salmaan Taseer ranks 65. Before him are Diana Wynne Jones, Jorge Semprún, Frans Sammut, Roberts Blossom, Lucian Freud, and Har Gobind Khorana. After him are Cliff Robertson, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Bubba Smith, Joe Simon, Michael Gough, and Michael Cacoyannis.

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In India

Among people born in India, Salmaan Taseer ranks 197 out of 1,861. Before him are Kareena Kapoor (1980), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), Gangubai Kothewali (1939), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), Chandragupta II (400), and Mahavatar Babaji (1900). After him are Bāṇabhaṭṭa (601), Nirmala Joshi (1934), Vishvamitra (-2000), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), and Ratan Tata (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Salmaan Taseer ranks 68. Before him are I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Rajaram I (1670), Pranab Mukherjee (1935), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), and Chandragupta II (400). After him are Vishvamitra (-2000), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), S. Jaishankar (1955), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), and Henry McMahon (1862).

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