Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

Pakistani judge and activist

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1929

Place of Birth: Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Muhammad Rafiq Tarar

  • Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ( (listen); Urdu: ???? ???? ?????; born 2 November 1929) is a Pakistani politician and a jurist who served as the 9th 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 1991 to 1994 and as the 28th Chief Justice of Lahore High Court from 1989 to 1991.Tarar was born in Ghakhar Mandi, Gujranwala and graduated with LLB from University of the Punjab in 1951, before starting practice as a lawyer in Lahore High Court the following year.
  • In 1966, he pursued a career as a jurist.
  • Tarar later served as a justice in Pakistan’s highest courts.
  • After his retirement at 65, he started a political career as a legal advisor to Nawaz Sharif.
  • Tarar became a senator from Punjab in 1997 and the same year nominated as presidential candidate by PML-N.
  • He was elected as President of Pakistan in historical presidential elections by a huge margin getting 374 out of 457 votes of the Electoral College.Tarar assumed office in January 1998 with heavy criticism by opposition especially from former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who accused him of illegally legitimizing dismissal of his government as a judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan.
  • As a head of state, Tarar shifted Pakistan's system of government from semi-presidential system to parliamentary democratic system by signing Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment.
  • He surrendered his reserve power of dismissing Prime Minister, triggering new elections and dissolving National Assembly.
  • He also signed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendment to the constitution that limited the powers of the presidency from executive to a figurehead.Tarar resigned as a President in 2001 following 1999 Pakistani coup d'Ă©tat.
  • He resisted and did not endorsed the 12 October 1999 military coup.
  • He was forced to step down by then Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf and ultimately succeeded by Musharraf through a referendum held in 2002.
  • Twenty months after seizing power in a coup, General Musharraf took the head of state's oath and became the fourth military ruler to become president.

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