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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wasim Sajjad has received more than 351,333 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Wasim Sajjad is the 14,646th most popular politician (down from 13,681st in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from India (down from 535th in 2019) and the 189th most popular Indian Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wasim Sajjad ranks 14,646 out of 19,576. Before him are Roger B. Taney, Kaj Leo Johannesen, John Smith, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Eduardo López de Romaña, and Puzur-Ashur I. After him are Dinesh Gunawardena, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Æscwine of Essex, Nikolai Baibakov, Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols, and Baba-aha-iddina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Wasim Sajjad ranks 426. Before him are Kurt Axelsson, Gianfranco Terenzi, Václav Mašek, Alf Clausen, Gilbert Kaplan, and Zlatko Škorić. After him are Gjermund Eggen, Aminata Sow Fall, Mario Trevi, Stokely Carmichael, Doug Rogers, and Paul Theroux.

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In India

Among people born in India, Wasim Sajjad ranks 633 out of 1,861. Before him are Rajkumar (1929), Abhishek Bachchan (1976), Oswald Gracias (1944), Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), and Homi K. Bhabha (1949). After him are William Birdwood (1865), S. Jaishankar (1955), Pratibha Ray (1944), Sudha Murty (1950), Rakesh Roshan (1949), and Ram Vilas Paswan (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Wasim Sajjad ranks 189. Before him are Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), Gopinath Bordoloi (1890), Purushottam Das Tandon (1882), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), K. B. Hedgewar (1889), and Lobsang Sangay (1968). After him are S. Jaishankar (1955), Ram Vilas Paswan (1946), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), Ashok Gehlot (1951), Shah Shuja (1616), and Sheila Dikshit (1938).

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