Web Desk:
Former president of Pakistan Muhammad Rafiq Tarar died on Monday at the age of 92 after prolonged illness.
Rafiq Tarar had been suffering from health issues since long, the sources said, adding that the time and place of his funeral prayers will be announced later today.
Taking to Twitter, his grandson and PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar said,” My grandfather Muhammad Rafiq Tarar passed away.”
میرے دادا جان محمد رفیق تارڑ رضائے الٰہی سے انتقال کر گئے ہیں۔
انا للہ وانا اليہ راجعون
— Attaullah Tarar (@TararAttaullah) March 7, 2022
Born on November 2, 1929, Muhammad Rafiq Tarar served as the ninth president from January 1998 until his resignation in June 2001. He had also been elected as a senator from Punjab in 1997.
Before joining 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 (LHC) from 1989 to 1991.
