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  "ar": "أبو القاسم فضل الحق",
  "en": "A. K. Fazlul Huq",
  "ur": "ابو القاسم فضل الحق"
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  "ar": "رجل دولة بنغالي (1873–1962) لُقّب «شير بنگال»، أول رئيس وزراء للبنغال (1937–1943) ومقدّم قرار لاهور سنة 1940. ترأس رابطة مسلمي عموم الهند وكان أميناً عاماً للمؤتمر الوطني الهندي في آن واحد، وبعد التقسيم صار رئيس وزراء باكستان الشرقية ثم وزير داخلية باكستان ثم حاكم باكستان الشرقية، ودُفن في ضريح القادة الثلاثة في دكا.",
  "en": "Bengali statesman (1873–1962) known as Sher-e-Bangla, the first prime minister of Bengal (1937–1943) and the mover of the Lahore Resolution in 1940. He was simultaneously president of the All India Muslim League and general secretary of the Indian National Congress; after partition he served as chief minister of East Bengal, home minister of Pakistan and governor of East Pakistan, and was buried in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders at Dhaka.",
  "ur": "بنگالی مدبر (1873ء–1962ء) جو «شیر بنگال» کے لقب سے مشہور ہوئے، بنگال کے پہلے وزیر اعظم (1937ء–1943ء) اور 1940ء میں قراردادِ لاہور کے محرک۔ بیک وقت آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے صدر اور انڈین نیشنل کانگریس کے جنرل سیکریٹری رہے؛ تقسیم کے بعد مشرقی بنگال کے وزیر اعلیٰ، پاکستان کے وزیر داخلہ اور مشرقی پاکستان کے گورنر رہے، اور ڈھاکہ میں تین قائدین کے مزار میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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  "latest": 1962.3201708453655
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   "note": "Born on 26 October 1873 at his maternal family home at Saturia in Backergunge District, as the English article states citing Banglapedia; the Arabic article and Wikidata give the same date. Saturia and Backergunge/Barisal have no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion of the followed date.",
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   "note": "Died on 27 April 1962 at Dacca, as all three articles and Wikidata agree, and was buried with Khawaja Nazimuddin and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders at Dhaka, as the English article states. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq",
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    "value": "أبو القاسم فضل الحق",
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    "note": "His school is not recorded: no text in any language names a school for Huq himself, and the readings are preserved here. The English text's only religion content is family framing — he was 'born in 1873 to a Bengali Muslim family' and 'belonged to a Bengali Muslim family of Qadis' — and family background never counts. The Urdu infobox gives his religion as Islam only, the Arabic infobox's religion field is empty, and Wikidata's single religion value is Islam only; none of these names a branch. His Muslim League presidency, his presenting of the Lahore Resolution and his founding of institutions for Bengali Muslims are Pakistan-movement facts, not attestations of his own school.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'A. K. Fazlul Huq' (revision 1381552542), Urdu Wikipedia 'فضل الحق' (revision 10146271) and Arabic Wikipedia 'أبو القاسم فضل الحق' (revision 75830563), each fetched by its recorded revision id with the returned id asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q3242246 (item revision 2561085991, asserted on fetch). Existence checks by name fragments (fazlul, huq, فضل الحق), by Arabic label across data/person, by biography and by QID found no prior record for this man; the existing fazl-e-haq-khairabadi and fazlur-rahman-khan records are different men. The died_in and buried_in edges to place/dhaka are written here; no born_in edge is written because Saturia and Backergunge have no place entities. He was the first holder of the Bengal premiership, so no successor_of edge arises for him; the edge for his own succession by Khawaja Nazimuddin in 1943 is written in Nazimuddin's record. The lane queue gives 'A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873–1962)', which the articles confirm.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أبو القاسم فضل الحق (26 تشرين الأول 1873 – 27 نيسان 1962)، المعروف بـ«شير بنگال» أي أسد البنغال، محامٍ ورجل دولة بنغالي، أول رئيس وزراء للبنغال (1937–1943) ومقدّم قرار لاهور سنة 1940.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ar} وكانت له مكانة فريدة إذ ترأس رابطة مسلمي عموم الهند وكان في الوقت نفسه أميناً عاماً للمؤتمر الوطني الهندي.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وتعليمه",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 26 تشرين الأول 1873 في بيت أخواله في ساتوريا بقضاء بكرغانج، لأسرة بنغالية مسلمة من القضاة؛ كان أبوه قاضي محمد واجد محامياً في محكمة باريسال.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} تدرّب في المحاماة وترقى في المجلس التشريعي البنغالي الذي انتُخب فيه أول مرة عن دكا سنة 1913، وعمل وزيراً لتعليم البنغال وعمدة لمدينة كلكتا.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسيرته السياسية",
     "markdown": "قاد بصفته رئيس وزراء البنغال ائتلافاً شعبياً أقرّت حكومته تشريعات لتخفيف ديون الفلاحين المستأجرين وإصلاح حيازة الأرض، وفي آذار 1940 قدّم قرار لاهور الداعي إلى دول ذات سيادة في مناطق الأغلبية المسلمة في الهند.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} وبعد التقسيم صار النائب العام لباكستان الشرقية، ثم رئيس وزرائها سنة 1954 — وهي حكومة حلّها المركز بعد أسابيع — ثم وزير داخلية باكستان (1955–1956) وحاكم باكستان الشرقية (1956–1958).{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} أسس كليات ومساكن لطلاب البنغال المسلمين وأسهم في تأسيس جامعة دكا.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} ولا يسمي أي نص مذهباً له؛ تكتفي المقالة الإنجليزية بوصفه مولوداً لأسرة مسلمة بنغالية، وتعطي ويكيداتا الإسلام فقط.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي في دكا في 27 نيسان 1962 ودُفن مع خواجة ناظم الدين وحسين شهيد سهروردي في ضريح القادة الثلاثة في دكا.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), known as Sher-e-Bangla, the Tiger of Bengal, was a Bengali lawyer and statesman, the first prime minister of Bengal (1937–1943) and the mover of the Lahore Resolution of 1940.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} He held the unusual distinction of serving simultaneously as president of the All India Muslim League and general secretary of the Indian National Congress.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born on 26 October 1873 at his maternal family home at Saturia in Backergunge District, to a Bengali Muslim family of Qadis; his father Qazi Muhammad Wajid was a lawyer of the Barisal bar.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} Trained in law, he rose through the Bengal Legislative Council, to which he was first elected from Dhaka in 1913, and served as Bengal's education minister and as mayor of Calcutta.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Political career",
     "markdown": "As prime minister of Bengal he led a populist coalition whose government enacted debt-relief and tenancy legislation for Bengal's tenant farmers, and in March 1940 he presented the Lahore Resolution calling for sovereign states in the Muslim-majority regions of India.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} After partition he was advocate general of East Bengal, then chief minister of East Bengal in 1954 — a government the centre dismissed within weeks — home minister of Pakistan (1955–1956) and governor of East Pakistan (1956–1958).{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} He founded colleges and hostels for Bengali Muslim students and contributed to the founding of Dhaka University.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} No article text names a school for him; the English article frames him only as born to a Bengali Muslim family, and Wikidata gives Islam only.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died at Dacca on 27 April 1962 and is buried with Khawaja Nazimuddin and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders in Dhaka.{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ابو القاسم فضل الحق (26 اکتوبر 1873ء – 27 اپریل 1962ء)، جو «شیر بنگال» کے لقب سے مشہور ہیں، بنگالی وکیل اور مدبر تھے، بنگال کے پہلے وزیر اعظم (1937ء–1943ء) اور 1940ء کی قراردادِ لاہور کے محرک۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ur} انھیں یہ انوکھی حیثیت بھی حاصل تھی کہ وہ بیک وقت آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ کے صدر اور انڈین نیشنل کانگریس کے جنرل سیکریٹری تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 26 اکتوبر 1873ء کو ضلع بکرگنج کے ستوریا میں اپنے ننھیال میں ایک بنگالی مسلمان قاضی خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد قاضی محمد واجد باریسال بار کے وکیل تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} قانون کی تربیت کے بعد وہ بنگال قانون ساز کونسل میں آگے بڑھے، جس کے لیے وہ 1913ء میں پہلی مرتبہ ڈھاکہ سے منتخب ہوئے، اور بنگال کے وزیر تعلیم اور کلکتہ کے میئر رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاسی زندگی",
     "markdown": "بنگال کے وزیر اعظم کی حیثیت سے انھوں نے ایک عوامی اتحاد کی قیادت کی جس کی حکومت نے کرایہ دار کسانوں کے قرضوں میں تخفیف اور اراضی مدت سے متعلق قوانین بنائے، اور مارچ 1940ء میں انھوں نے قراردادِ لاہور پیش کی جس میں ہندوستان کے مسلم اکثریتی علاقوں کی خودمختار ریاستوں کا مطالبہ تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} تقسیم کے بعد وہ مشرقی بنگال کے ایڈووکیٹ جنرل، پھر 1954ء میں مشرقی بنگال کے وزیر اعلیٰ — جن کی حکومت مرکز نے چند ہفتوں میں برطرف کر دی — پاکستان کے وزیر داخلہ (1955ء–1956ء) اور مشرقی پاکستان کے گورنر (1956ء–1958ء) رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} انھوں نے بنگالی مسلمان طلبہ کے لیے کالج اور ہاسٹل قائم کیے اور ڈھاکہ یونیورسٹی کے قیام میں حصہ لیا۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en} کسی متن میں ان کا مسلک درج نہیں؛ انگریزی مضمون انھیں صرف ایک بنگالی مسلمان خاندان میں پیدا ہونے والا بتاتا ہے، اور وکی ڈیٹا میں صرف اسلام درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کا انتقال 27 اپریل 1962ء کو ڈھاکہ میں ہوا اور وہ خواجہ ناظم الدین اور حسین شہید سہروردی کے ساتھ ڈھاکہ میں تین قائدین کے مزار میں دفن ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-a-k-fazlul-huq-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-a-k-fazlul-huq}}"
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