Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar ( Urdu محمد رفیق تارڑ, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar DMG, born November 2, 1929) was President of Pakistan from 1 January 1998 to 20 June 2001.
Life
During Pakistan 's independence in 1947, Rafiq Tarar voluntarily worked as a laborer in a camp of Muslim Students Federation for refugees, who had immigrated from India. Muhammad Rafiq Tarar graduated from the Islamia College in Gujranwala in 1949. In 1951 he secured his degree in law at the " Law College " in Lahore.
Profession
In 1951 he had to register as a defender and register in October 1955 as a lawyer in the High Court of Lahore. After his graduation, he founded a law firm in Gujranwala. He was also District and Sessions Judge, supreme judge of the district. In 1971 he became Chairman of the Punjab Labor Court ( Labour Court ). In October 1974, he was involved as a judge of the Lahore High Court and 1989 then Chief Justice ( Chief Justice ) of the same court. Previously, during the time of the Judges of the Lahore High Court, he served as a member of the Pakistan Election Commission. Rafiq Tarar was elevated in January 1991, a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, of which 65 years he retired in November 1994.
President of Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif brought him back out of retirement and Tarar was elected in 1997 for the Pakistan Muslim League ( PML) in the Senate. In the same year he was elected on December 31, the President of Pakistan. During his presidency, Tarar was mainly a figurehead. The power of the presidency was visibly weakened over the years, which eventually led in 1997 to the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, which virtually abolished all remaining power and the Office made almost entirely symbolic.
Retirement
Tarar was not removed from office when Pervez Musharraf took control of the Pakistani government in 1999. While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deposed, Tarar was allowed to remain in his post until 2001. At this time, Musharraf himself took over the presidency to gain both legitimacy and help Pakistan's government model to a presiding dialeren system.