Saggy Tahir

Saghir "Saggy" Tahir is a state-level part-time Pakistani American politician who currently serves as a New Hampshire State Representative. He is the only elected Muslim in the Republican Party. In the 2006 elections, he was re-elected for a fourth term to represent Ward 2, District 9 in his home town of Manchester.

Background

Tahir was born in British Raj India, at New Delhi. In 1972 he emigrated to the United States from Lahore, Pakistan, "with about $100 to his name." At this point of his life Tahir felt sacrifice was necessary: "I was married to the business rather than married to my wife." Focusing on his businesses left him with little family time. "I wanted to take my kids out of the poverty cycle because I came from a poor family and to do that I had to work and I did work more than 16, 18, 20 hours a day, seven days a week to get ahead of the...
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