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	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarar was mostly a figurehead ruler during his time in office.
		Tarar was not removed from office when Pervez Musharraf seized control of the Pakistani government in 1999.
		While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deposed, Tarar was allowed to remain in office until 2001, at which point Musharraf assumed the presidency in an attempt to both gain legitimacy and restructure Pakistan's model of government to a more presidential system of rule.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Muhammad_Rafiq_Tarar (198 words)

	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar [Born 1929] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On January 1, 1998, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar took the oath as the ninth President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was born on November 2, 1929, in a middle-class family of the village Pirkot in District Gujranwala, near Lahore.
		Justice Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1991, from which he retired in November 1994 on attaining the age of 65 years.
	www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P028 (412 words)

	Allama Mohammed Iqbal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar a former Judge of the Supreme Court and a Senator was elected as the ninth President of Pakistan and took oath to his office on January 1,1998.
		Rafiq Tarar was however criticized by the opposition parties and newspapers because the nominated President was from the Punjab province, which was also the home province of the Prime Minister.
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was not a politician of standing nor had been a distinguished Judge.
	www.pakistan1947.com /Rafiq_Tarar.htm (650 words)

	President of PAKISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was born on November 2, 1929, in a small village Pir Kot, Ghakkar Mandi, Wazirabad Tehsil.
		Rafiq Tarar got his law degree from Punjab University Law College in 1951 and started his legal practice in Gujranwala.
		Tarar is noted for his legal scholarship, his honesty and devotion to justice, which is infused by a firm personal religious faith.
	members.tripod.com /~NationalAssembly/presdent.htm (310 words)

	The Hindu : Rafiq Tarar forced to quit?
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar has ceased to hold the office of the President with immediate effect''.
		Tarar was elected President in 1998 during the regime of Mr.
		Tarar was quoted as telling reporters in Lahore that he was in perfect health, leading to interpretations that perhaps it was a signal on his ability to carry on with the responsibilities of the President.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/21/stories/01210002.htm (432 words)

	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar elected as President [1998] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, a former Judge of the Supreme Court and a Senator, was elected as the ninth President of Pakistan.
		The nomination of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was, however, criticized by the opposition parties and newspapers because the nominated President was from Lahore, which was also the hometown of the Prime Minister.
		Rafiq Tarar seemed to be an unassuming and ceremonial President with a low profile, who kept away from the press.
	www.storyofpakistan.com /articletext.asp?artid=A116 (504 words)

	Tarar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarar, who sports a long grey beard and habitually wears national dress, is the first person from the judicial sphere to rise to the top office in the country's 50-year history.
		Tarar reportedly acted as a close adviser to Sharif during his recent tussles with the former chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah and president Farooq Ahmed Leghari who resigned on December 2.
		Tarar was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1991 and retired from there on supernnuation in 1994.
	home.wtal.de /bg/pakarch/tarar.htm (478 words)

	CNN - Pakistan lawmakers elect controversial president - December 31, 1997
		ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, a candidate of Pakistan's ruling party who has been criticized by liberals as a rigid Islamist and labeled a "puppet" of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was elected president on Wednesday by an overwhelming majority.
		Tarar, 68, a former judge of the Supreme Court, was one of seven candidates.
		The vote in provincial assemblies: In Punjab, 247 members voted for Tarar and three for Mirani; in Sindh, 69 voted for Tarar and 34 for Mirani; in the North West Frontier, 69 voted for Tarar and four for Mirani; and in Baluchistan, 26 voted for Tarar and two for Mirani.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/31/pakistan.parliament (531 words)

	Muhammad Jahangir Ahmed Web
		Muhammad Khan Junejo was elected member of the National Assembly in 1990, and died of illness in 1992.
		Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was born in Lahore, on December 25, 1949.
		Justice Muhammad Rafiq Tarar was elevated as the Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1991 from which he retired in November 1994 on attaining the age of 65 years.
	www.tam.ru /zaqwan/pakistan/p2.html (12112 words)

	MUHAMMAD RAFIQ TARAR FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Presidency of Pakistan's powers had been slowly removed over the years, culminating in the 1997 Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Constitution_of_Pakistan which removed virtually all remaining reserve_powers, making the office almost entirely symbolic in nature.
		Tarar was not removed from office when Pervez_Musharraf seized control of the Pakistani government in 1999.
		While Prime Minister Nawaz_Sharif was deposed, Tarar was allowed to remain in office until 2001, at which point Musharraf assumed the presidency in an attempt to both gain legitimacy and restructure Pakistan's model of government to a more presidential_system of rule.
	www.witwib.com /Muhammad_Rafiq_Tarar (121 words)

	President Rafiq Tarar - His Religious Profile
		Early in his career, Tarar was once attacked by a Qadiani and received injuries (The Daily Jang, 17 December 1997).
		The fact is that in 1954(after extensive anti-Ahmadiyya Ahrari riots in the Punjab) Tarar, a young activist, approached an old man by the name of Rahmat, an Ahmadi, and initiated a hot argument and attacked him.
		Senator Tarar wrote an article for the Daily Khabrain of 24 April 1997 in which he made a big case to prove why an Ahmadi should not be appointed a judge at the provincial High Court.
	www.thepersecution.org /archive/pl_xtarar.html (578 words)

	ORDERAA.htm in Business Recorder on December 19, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The oral objection of Syed Muhammad Iqtdar Haider was in respect of Mr Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, giving TV interview to a representative of Pakistan Television at the time of filing of nomination paper inside the Committee Room, where nomination papers were being received.
		Mr Tarar has also stated in his interview that the then Government appointed dozen of Judges who were touts and corrupt and their elevation was okayed by the Acting Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court without any scrutiny.
		Mohammad Rafiq Tarar is covered by sub-clause (g) of clause (1) of Article-63 of the Constitution of Pakistan and since he cannot be elected as member of the Parliament, hence in terms of Article 41(2) of the Constitution of Pakistan, he cannot be elected as President of Pakistan.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/Dec/19/ORDERAA.htm (1139 words)

	Wasim Sajjad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He would run in the election for President, but was defeated by Farooq Leghari.
		In 1997, Sajjad was again made interim President and stepped down upon the election of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar.
		Sajjad continues to serve in the Pakistani government, and is known for his conciliatory nature among parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wasim_Sajjad (178 words)

	[Comp-list] Technological development needed to boost economy: Tarar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Technological development needed to boost economy: Tarar The News, 8/6/2001 http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jun2001-daily/08-06-2001/business/b11.htm ISLAMABAD: President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar on Thursday stressed the need for technological development and utilisation of available resources, saying, it was imperative for socio-economic uplift in the country.
		Tarar added over population, shortage of food, environmental pollution, health problems and failure to create a scientific culture in the Islamic tradition are all directly linked with the slow pace of industrialisation in the Islamic countries.
		President Tarar said the Islamic World, covering an area of some 31 million sq.kms., with a population of more than one billion and an economy of more than a trillion dollars, still lags behind in industrial development and use of available resources for the good of their people.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/comp-list/2001-June/000151.html (544 words)

	Pak SC upholds Tarar's election
		Tarar was elected president on December 31 after the Lahore high court suspended the operation of the CEC's order rejecting his nomination papers.
		The election of Tarar, a surprise candidate of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) who was personally nominated by premier Nawaz Sharif, becamecontroversial when the then acting CEC, Mukhtar Ahmed Junejo, rejected his nomination papers for allegedly committing contempt of judiciary in an interview with an Urdu magazine.
		The allegation against Tarar, a former judge of the supreme court and a sitting member of parliament, was brought before the CEC by Mirani.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980628/17950394.html (216 words)

	The Hindu : Musharraf becomes President
		Tarar was conspicuous by his absence at the swearing-in of Gen. Musharraf, having left earlier for Lahore - his hometown.
		Tarar from office but dashed the hopes of the legislators of the suspended Assemblies on revival of the Houses.
		Tarar's ouster, saying with the dissolution of the Assemblies, the office of President, elected by the Assemblies, became untenable.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/21/stories/01210001.htm (845 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Multimedia - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
		Muhammad Rafiq Tarar became President of Pakistan in 1997.
		He was the nominee of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who consolidated his power in the Pakistani hierarchy through his appointment.
		Tarar remained in office after the army coup led by General Pervez Musharraf in 1999, but was dismissed in 2001.
	au.encarta.msn.com /media_121627268/Muhammad_Rafiq_Tarar.html (57 words)

	Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
		I found President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar belonging to this brand of class who would openly acknowledge his humble background, and attribute his present place of honor to the Will of God, and to not to any merit of his.
		President Tarar, said that it had been his singular honor that he was elected by the National Assembly and the Senate and by the four provincial assemblies with the highest percentage of votes, 85%, ever cast in favor of any previous incumbent of this office.
		Tarar who are self-less, simple, honest and are conscious of their mortality all the time.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2000/July/14/01.html (1318 words)

	Sharif gets reprieve as court stays order against Tarar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The acting CEC had yesterday rejected the nomination papers of Tarar, a sitting Senator, disqualifying him from being a member of Parliament under Article 63(1)(G) of the Constitution, saying he had defamed the judiciary, and consequently cannot be elected as the head of state.
		Tarar's counsel told the court that as he was already a sitting member of Parliament, he was duly qualified under the law to contest the presidential elections.
		Tarar's counsel charged the CEC of ``malafide intention'' saying that his clarification that the interviews and statements pointed out by the PPP's candidate were not wholly correct was rejected by the CEC.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19971220/35450093.html (435 words)

	The Nation
		Rafiq Tarar said Iran had refused to bow down before America which can neither afford the Iranian revolution nor tolerate the Muslims wearing beard and the turbans.
		Deploring the American bias towards the Muslim states, Tarar observed American had serious objections to the peaceful nuclear programme of Iran but it had never expressed concern over 200 nuclear bombs which Israel, sitting in the middle of the Islamic countries, was possessing.
		Rafiq Tarar appreciated the Iranian leadership for kicking away attractive incentives in lieu of its atomic technology and added, earlier to October 12, 1999 the Government of Pakistan also had this mettle.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/mar-2005/29/localnews2.php (535 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar renewed Pakistan’s resolve to support the Kashmiris’ struggle for self-determination on the occasion of the country’s national day today even while seeking peaceful ties with India.
		Tarar, however, reaffirmed his country’s desire or a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue and friendly ties with all its neighbours but warned against interpreting this as a sign of weakness, in an obvious reference to India.
		Tarar also complimented Pakistani scientists and armed forces for the tests and praised Sharif for initiating a number of measures to arrest the declining law and order situation in the country.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /99mar24/inter.htm (3025 words)

	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarar era sobre todo una regla del figurehead durante su tiempo en oficina.
		Tarar no fue quitado de oficina cuando Pervez Musharraf agarró el control del gobierno paquistaní en 1999.
		Mientras que el primer ministro Nawaz Sharif deposed, Tarar fue permitido permanecer en oficina hasta 2001, en el cual el punto Musharraf asumió la presidencia en una tentativa a la legitimidad del aumento y reestructura el modelo de Paquistán del gobierno a un sistema más presidencial de la regla.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/mu/Muhammad%20Rafiq%20Tarar.htm (176 words)

	President of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elections were held in 1963, and Khan defeated the sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Fatima.
		Ayub Khan continued as president until March 25, 1969, and he passed the Presidency onto Yahya Khan.
		In 1978, Prime Minister Bhutto was toppled by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq who declared himself President.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/President_of_Pakistan (671 words)

	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		November 2, 1929) was (Click link for more info and facts about President of Pakistan) President of Pakistan from January 1, 1998 until June 20, 2001.
		Tarar was mostly a (Figure on the bow of some sailing vessels) figurehead ruler during his time in office.
		Tarar was not removed from office when (Click link for more info and facts about Pervez Musharraf) Pervez Musharraf seized control of the Pakistani government in 1999.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mu/Muhammad_Rafiq_Tarar.htm (81 words)

	Pak should expedite missile programme, says Rafiq Tarar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tarar also suggested setting up of a commissionto draw up strategy to enhance cooperation among the Muslim world in political and economic fields.
		Tarar's advice for further expediting the missile programme comes barely a fortnight after Pakistan announced the successful test firing of its intermediate range Ghauri missile on April 6, which has the capability of delivering nuclear warhead up to a range of 1,500 kms.
		Tarar while emphasising the unity of the Muslim world, said that the Islam's concept of nation is beyond the physical boundaries, colour, cast and creed and ``we need to revive it.''
	www.financialexpress.com /ie/daily/19980420/11050034.html (403 words)

	Imambargah Aun Muhammad Rizvi
		The President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Justice (R) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar Sahib bestowed on 14th August 2000, the President's Medal for Outstanding Performance, posthumously to late Aun Muhammad Rizvi Sahib.
		She said people of the calibre of Aun Muhammad Rizvi do not come by easily and his loss is not only an individual loss, but also a great set back for the country.
		Manzoor Ahmed Watto said that the death of Aun Muhammad Rizvi was the result of provincial animosity and he was deeply grieved on hearing the sorrowful news.
	www.shaheed-aun.com /Family/LinkAun/Tributes.asp (2474 words)

	DAWN WIRE SERVICE : 11 November 2000 Issue : 06/43
		Tarar was despatched to Quetta by Nawaz Sharif in a special flight which landed at Quetta at night.
		The runway was specially lit up for Tarar and the security man on duty is reported to have noted in his log: "Instructions have been received from Islamabad that the details the special flight carrying the visiting dignitary, senator Rafiq Ahmad Tarar, must be kept confidential and not reported" (or words to this effect).
		By my side were that morning's newspapers with President Rafiq Tarar solemnly warning the nation to be prepared for more bomb attacks and saying that the recent wave of bomb blasts was linked to the forthcoming defence exhibition in Karachi.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/2000/nov11.html (10136 words)

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