Farooq Khan Lehari died

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Farewell - Former President Farooq Leghari who passed away on Wednesday

Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari (May 29, 1940 – October 20, 2010) was the eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997. Leghari was born in Choti Zareen, a village of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab on May 29, 1940 and died on October 20, 2010 due to cardiac arrest. He was born into a political family that has been active in politics in this part of the world since the pre-colonial days. His father Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari and grand father Nawab Muhmammad Jamal Khan Leghari had both been ministers. Leghari was the major landowner in the area owning approximately 2,500 acres of land.

After his initial schooling at Aitchison College Lahore, Leghari graduated with honours from the Forman Christian College Lahore, and from there went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.

After returning to Pakistan he joined the Civil Service and served for some time in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). On the death of his father he resigned from service and came back to his roots to look after the tribal affairs of his tribe, which he subsequently headed. He later joined the Pakistan Peoples Party, and was made leader of the party upon the imprisonment of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He was put under house-arrest several times during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.

In 1993, with the express support of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Leghari ran for the office of President and won the election against Wasim Sajjad. However, in November 1996, he dismissed the Peoples' Party Government of Benazir Bhutto on charges of corruption, lawlessness and extra judicial killings, and conducted elections for the National Assembly in 1997. The elections were won by the Pakistan Muslim League and Nawaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister. A decisive majority in the lower house of parliament led the Sharif Government to remove the controversial 8th amendment from the constitution of Pakistan. Leghari saw this as a threat to his power and conspired with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sajjad Ali Shah, to sack the Sharif Government. This led to an uprising against both he and Shah and forced both men to resign.

Instead of retiring from politics, he went on to create his own political party, the Millat Party, and later merged it with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Q) in May 2004. His elder son Jamal Leghari has recently been elected to the Senate of Pakistan. His daughter Faryal Leghari is an analyst and researcher in the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. Leghari died on October 20, 2010 in Rawalpindi due to a heart related illness.

(edited from Wikipedia)



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Faryal Leghari

researcher at gulf research center

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October 2005 — Present (5 years 1 month)

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MA , International Conflict Analysis , 2004 — 2005

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Faryal Leghari

Researcher
Gulf Research Center in Dubai
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Faryal Leghari is a researcher in the Security & Terrorism Department at the Gulf Research Center and is also in charge of developing the GCC-Pakistan Relations Research Program. Faryal holds an MA degree in International Conflict Analysis from University of Kent at Canterbury in England. She has also done a Masters in English Literature & Language from Kinnaird College, Punjab University at Lahore, Pakistan. Her areas of interest are conflict resolution, guerrilla warfare, revolutions, terrorism and soft security issues. Areas of geographical interest include the Gulf, Northern Caucasus, China and South West Asia.

Faryal has authored a study on soft security titled, "Narcotics & Human Trafficking to the GCC States" and has also published a comprehensive edited volume on "Pakistan-Gulf Strategic Relations,” to which she contributed two chapters on counter-terrorism and soft security. She has also written several articles on security issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechnya, besides on political and economic issues that have been published in several regional newspapers.


Articles by Faryal Leghari

* Dealing with FATA: Shortfalls in Strategy and Recommendations for Rectification
* Pakistan: Tumultuous Political Situation Continues
* The Missing Components in the Strategy for FATA
* Upping the ante: the Islamabad attack and al Qaeda involvement