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Former president of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari passed away in Rawalpindi on early hours of Wednesday. He was 70. Leghari had been a cardiac patient and was treated for the same in CMH Rawalpindi. He belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan District of South Punjab. Leghari was eighth elected President of Pakistan in 1993. He dismissed Benazir Bhuttos government on allegations of corruption, lawlessness and extra-judicial-killings by using article 58-2B of the Constitution on November 05, 1996. Leghari formed his own political party Millat, which he later in 2002 merged in PML-Q.
