ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Former Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari died of heart disease late Tuesday night in an Islamabad hospital, officials said.
Leghari, 70, was the eighth president of Pakistan, serving from Nov. 14, 1993, to Dec. 2, 1997.
He will be buried Wednesday in his family's ancestral town of Dera Ghazi Khan, the Pakistan Times reported.
Educated at Oxford, Leghari joined the Pakistani civil service but quit upon the death of his father to lead his tribe.
He became leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party after the imprisonment of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the 1970s and was placed under house arrest several times under military dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
He was elected president in 1993, with the support of the Bhuttos' Pakistan Peoples Party, but dismissed Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government on allegations of assassinations and corruption on Nov. 19, 1996, Dawn News reported.
Leghari formed his own political party, Millet, which he later merged into a coalition.
