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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 456,496 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Farooq Leghari is the 12,349th most popular politician (up from 12,919th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 61st in 2019) and the 25th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Farooq Leghari ranks 12,349 out of 19,576. Before him are Stefano Domenicali, William Perry, Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Winfield Scott Hancock, Arshak II, and Oʻtkir Sultonov. After him are Giovanni I Cornaro, Fejzi Alizoti, Juan N. Méndez, Yıldırım Akbulut, Ants Piip, and Francesco II Acciaioli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Farooq Leghari ranks 273. Before him are Vladica Kovačević, Alain Calmat, José de Anchieta Fontana, Francesco Guccini, Endre Szemerédi, and Luis María Echeberría. After him are Gheorghe Gruia, Li Zhaoxing, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Johnny Nash, Levon Helm, and Richard Lynch. Among people deceased in 2010, Farooq Leghari ranks 197. Before him are Luigi Poggi, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Frazetta, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Salvador Jorge Blanco. After him are Cammie King, Laurent Terzieff, Petra Schürmann, Jimmy Gardner, Simon MacCorkindale, and Zelda Rubinstein.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 60 out of 217. Before him are Sunil Dutt (1929), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), Milkha Singh (1935), Francis Younghusband (1863), and Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911). After him are Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), Duleep Singh (1838), Malala Yousafzai (1997), and Yash Chopra (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Farooq Leghari ranks 25. Before him are Nawaz Sharif (1949), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Taxiles (-400), I. K. Gujral (1919), and Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929). After him are Duleep Singh (1838), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), and Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950).

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