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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 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and was sworn in shortly after Zia's death. Raised in Bannu, Khan graduated from Peshawar University and entered the Indian Civil Service, opting for Pakistan after the independence in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ghulam Ishaq Khan has received more than 584,383 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ghulam Ishaq Khan is the 11,051st most popular politician (down from 8,415th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 34th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Pakistani Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 11,051 out of 15,577. Before him are Ottokar III of Styria, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Quintus Lollius Urbicus, István Friedrich, Dawoud Rajiha, and Thutmose. After him are Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Johann Georg Hiedler, Victoria Kent, Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen, Florence Harding, and J. B. M. Hertzog.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 131. Before him are Eddie Bracken, Alberto Burri, Karl Leisner, Saifuddin Azizi, Liisi Oterma, and Vítězslava Kaprálová. After him are M. F. Husain, Nikos Beloyannis, Zulfiya, Wilhelm Gliese, Alykul Osmonov, and Vladimir Zeldin. Among people deceased in 2006, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 174. Before him are Paul Halmos, Henri Colpi, Gennadiy Aygi, Bruno Kirby, Kazimierz Górski, and Anita O'Day. After him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Rainer Barzel, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mariam Aslamazian, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and Asima Chatterjee.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 51 out of 180. Before him are Rahman Baba (1632), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Francis Younghusband (1863), Raja Dahir (663), and Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580). After him are Sunil Dutt (1929), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), and Tariq Ali (1943).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan ranks 23. Before him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Taxiles (-400), Yahya Khan (1914), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), and Raja Dahir (663). After him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Farooq Leghari (1940), L. K. Advani (1927), Bahlul Lodi (1406), and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904).

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