Ex-President Farooq Leghari passes away
October 20, 2010 by Trend PK
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ISLAMABAD: Former president of Pakistan, Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, passed away early Wednesday morning at a hospital in Rawalpindi. He was 70.
Leghari had been under treatment at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology for quite some time for heart problems.
His body is to be flown to his ancestral town in Dera Ghazi Khan where he is to be laid to rest.
The funeral prayer will be offered at 4:00pm today (Wednesday).
Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari was the eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 till December 2, 1997.
He was born in Choti Zareen, a village in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab on May 29, 1940. He comes from an eminent political family that has been active in politics in this part of the world since pre-colonial days.
His father, Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari, and grandfather, Nawab Sir
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