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Wasim Sajjad

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Wasim Sajjad Jan (Urdu: وسیم سجاد جان; born 30 March 1941) is a Pakistani conservative politician and lawyer who served as the acting president of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms and as the Chairman of the Senate between 1988 and 1999. Born in Jalandhar, British India, Sajjad's father (Justice Sajjad Ahmad Jan) went on to serve as a judge of the Supreme Court, later becoming Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan. Sajjad studied at the Army Burn Hall before moving to Lahore where he studied law at the Punjab University. As a Rhodes Scholar, he moved to Oxfordshire, where he received his Bachelor of Civil Law followed by a graduate degree in Jurisprudence from the Wadham College, Oxford in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wasim Sajjad is the 14,989th most popular politician (down from 14,642nd in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from India (down from 633rd in 2019) and the 192nd most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wasim Sajjad ranks 14,989 out of 19,576. Before him are Carlo Petrini, Evangelos Venizelos, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Domenico Flabanico, Eva Šuranová, and Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. After him are Ashtavakra, Prosper Avril, Eric Arturo Delvalle, Chuy García, Claudia Roth, and Zac Goldsmith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Wasim Sajjad ranks 447. Before him are Jacques Cheminade, Stanislav Stratiev, Gilbert Kaplan, Henry Carr, Peter Brötzmann, and Helen Reddy. After him are Kaija Mustonen, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Nikolai Gubenko, Charlotte Stewart, Giancarlo Bercellino, and Gjermund Eggen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Wasim Sajjad ranks 674 out of 1,861. Before him are Manoj Bajpayee (1969), Jamini Roy (1887), Ashapurna Devi (1909), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), and Gautam Adani (1962). After him are N. T. Rama Rao (1923), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Uttam Kumar (1926), Atul Kulkarni (1965), Celina Jaitly (1981), and Somnath Sharma (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Wasim Sajjad ranks 192. Before him are Paddy Ashdown (1941), V. N. Janaki (1923), Kiran Bedi (1949), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), and Govind Ballabh Pant (1887). After him are Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), and K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954).

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