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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Farooq Leghari has received more than 421,514 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Farooq Leghari is the 12,964th most popular politician (down from 11,976th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Farooq Leghari ranks 12,964 out of 15,577Before him are Yan Gamarnik, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot, Ahmed Nazif, Berthold Delbrück, Corina Casanova, and Johann Löwenthal. After him are Eduardo Rodríguez, Walter Isaacson, Sakir-Har, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus, Marija Pejčinović Burić, and Aspelta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Farooq Leghari ranks 320Before him are Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gene Pitney, Franco Balmamion, Souleymane Cissé, Vladimir Korenev, and Aracy Balabanian. After him are Léon Semmeling, Claire Bretécher, Frankie Avalon, Robby Müller, Robert Blust, and Mirjam Pressler. Among people deceased in 2010, Farooq Leghari ranks 228Before him are Bob Guccione, Jacques Martin, Shirley Verrett, Herbert Erhardt, Loki Schmidt, and Daisuke Gōri. After him are Herb Ellis, Enrique Morente, Dezső Bundzsák, Raymond Impanis, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 62 out of 180Before him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Tariq Ali (1943), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Yash Chopra (1932), and Prithviraj Kapoor (1906). After him are L. K. Advani (1927), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Raaj Kumar (1926), Birbal Sahni (1891), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), and Duleep Singh (1838).

Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 26Before him are I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Raja Dahir (663), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), and Shehbaz Sharif (1951). After him are L. K. Advani (1927), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Duleep Singh (1838), J. B. Kripalani (1888), and Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950).