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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

1929 - 2022

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Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ( ; Urdu: محمد رفیق تارڑ; 2 November 1929 – 7 March 2022) was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the ninth president of Pakistan from January 1998 until his resignation in June 2001, and prior to that as a senator from Punjab in 1997. Before entering politics, Tarar served as senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1992 to 1994 and as the 28th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991. Tarar was born in Mandi Bahauddin, and graduated with LLB from University of the Punjab in 1951, before starting practice as a lawyer in Lahore High Court the following year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar has received more than 657,182 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Muhammad Rafiq Tarar is the 10,913th most popular politician (up from 11,774th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 55th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Pakistani Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 10,913 out of 19,576. Before him are Ibrahim Mahlab, Iona Nikitchenko, Filippo Turati, Claudia Marcella Minor, Gnaeus Manlius Vulso, and Vasil Mzhavanadze. After him are Mario García Menocal, Sadako Ogata, John W. McCormack, Bajram Curri, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, and Adalgis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 218. Before him are Milton Glaser, Kjell Askildsen, Péter Palotás, Sixten Jernberg, Horst Frank, and Arnold Palmer. After him are Hal Ashby, Hugues Aufray, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Péter Szondi, Lee Shau-kee, and Bob Hawke. Among people deceased in 2022, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 203. Before him are Valery Ryumin, Ronnie Spector, Edgar Savisaar, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Nick Bollettieri, and Lando Buzzanca. After him are Éder Jofre, William Klein, Philippe Streiff, Christopher Alexander, Tony Brooks, and Titus Buberník.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 53 out of 217. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Tariq Ali (1943), Taxiles (-400), Kumail Nanjiani (1978), and I. K. Gujral (1919). After 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).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ranks 24. Before him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), Taxiles (-400), and I. K. Gujral (1919). After him are Farooq Leghari (1940), Duleep Singh (1838), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Bahlul Lodi (1406), and Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952).

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