Javaid Laghari

{{short description|Pakistani politician}}

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{{BLP sources|date=September 2011}}

{{BLP one source|date=January 2021}}

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{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}

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| birth_place = Hyderabad, Pakistan

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| fields = Electrical engineering

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| awards = Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (1999)
IEEE Leadership Award (1994)

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|order =Chairman of the Higher Education Commission

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|order2 =Pakistan Senator to the Senate Secretariat

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|term_start2 = 23 March 2006

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Asif Ali Zardari

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Yousaf Raza Gillani

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|order3 =6th Science Adviser to the Prime minister Secretariat

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|term_start3 =1 August 1993

|term_end3 =5 November 1996

|president3 =Wasim Sajjad
Farooq Leghari

|primeminister3 =Benazir Bhutto

|predecessor3 =Munir Ahmad Khan

|successor3 =Ishfaq Ahmad

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Javaid Laghari (Urdu: جاويد لغارى) TI is a Pakistani American who has served as the Chairperson of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from August 2009 to August 2013 with the status of a Federal Minister.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100722181459/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2005254,00.html Pakistan's Fake-Degree Scandal]