Description
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari English IPA: f?ruk? �?m�d l??h?r??, was the eighth President of Pakistan, serving from 14 November 1993 until voluntarily resgning on 2 December 1997. He is noted as the first Baloch to have been elected as president.
Educated at the FC College University in Pakistan, and the Oxford University in United Kingdom, he served in the civil bureaucracy and served on political assignments in East-Pakistan in the 1960s until 1970. Generally an apolitical and socialist oriented, Leghari party worker of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the 1970s and was finally named as the presidential candidate by Benazir Bhutto due to his apolitical vision. He was merely a constitutional and ceremonial figurehead in the Benazir's government; whilst Benazir exercised her authority while running her government. Surprisingly, he dismissed his leader's government after being convinced of Benazir Bhutto and her spouse Asif Ali Zardari's involvement in younger brother's death as well as an economic default was reached at that time.
Born
May 29th, 1940 in Choti Zareen / Died: Oct 19th, 2010
Last Changes
2010/12/14
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2010/08/27
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)
2006/08/29
New Address: Available to members only