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  "ar": "حسين شهيد سهروردي",
  "en": "Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy",
  "ur": "حسین شہید سہروردی"
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  "ar": "رجل دولة بنغالي (1892–1963)، آخر رئيس وزراء للبنغال الموحدة (1946–1947) وخامس رئيس وزراء لباكستان (1956–1957). أسس رابطة عوامي وقاد الجبهة المتحدة في باكستان الشرقية، وخلف خواجة ناظم الدين في رئاسة وزراء البنغال، وتوفي في بيروت ودُفن في ضريح القادة الثلاثة في دكا.",
  "en": "Bengali statesman (1892–1963), the last prime minister of undivided Bengal (1946–1947) and the fifth prime minister of Pakistan (1956–1957). He founded the Awami League, led the United Front in East Pakistan, and succeeded Khawaja Nazimuddin as prime minister of Bengal; he died at Beirut and was buried in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders at Dhaka.",
  "ur": "بنگالی مدبر (1892ء–1963ء)، غیر منقسم بنگال کے آخری وزیر اعظم (1946ء–1947ء) اور پاکستان کے پانچویں وزیر اعظم (1956ء–1957ء)۔ عوامی لیگ کی بنیاد رکھی، مشرقی پاکستان میں متحدہ محاذ کی قیادت کی، اور خواجہ ناظم الدین کے بعد بنگال کے وزیر اعظم بنے؛ بیروت میں انتقال ہوا اور ڈھاکہ میں تین قائدین کے مزار میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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   "note": "Born on 8 September 1892 at Midnapore in the Bengal Presidency, as the English article and Wikidata agree (Wikidata also carries a year-only 1892 variant). Midnapore has 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 of a heart attack on 5 December 1963 at Beirut, as the English article states citing the New York Times obituary; Beirut has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written. He was buried at Dhaka beside Khawaja Nazimuddin and A. K. Fazlul Huq in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders, as the English article states. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "حسين شهيد سهروردي",
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    "note": "His school is not recorded: no text names a school for Suhrawardy himself, and the readings are preserved here. The English article's family section traces the Suhrawardy lineage to Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi, the twelfth-century Baghdad Sufi; calls the Suhrawardiyya one of the major Sunni orders of Sufism; and describes his grandfather Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy as a Dhaka-based Sufi leader — all of it family background and ancestry, which never counts as an attestation of the man's own affiliation, and no text states any discipleship, initiation or order membership of his own, so no sufi value is recorded. The Urdu and Arabic articles name no religion for him (the Arabic infobox's religion field is empty), and Wikidata's single religion value is Islam only.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حسين شهيد سهروردي (8 أيلول 1892 – 5 كانون الأول 1963) رجل دولة بنغالي، آخر رئيس وزراء للبنغال الموحدة (1946–1947) وخامس رئيس وزراء لباكستان (1956–1957).{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ar} أسس رابطة عوامي وقاد الجبهة المتحدة التي اكتسحت انتخابات باكستان الشرقية سنة 1954.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أسرته ونشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 8 أيلول 1892 في مدنابور. تتتبع المقالة الإنجليزية نسب أسرة سهروردي إلى شهاب الدين عمر السهروردي، الصوفي البغدادي من القرن الثاني عشر الذي تُنسب إليه الطريقة السهروردية، وتصف جده عبيد الله العبيدي سهروردي بأنه كان قائداً صوفياً في دكا؛ أما أبوه القاضي زاهد سهروردي فكان قاضياً في محكمة كلكتا العليا.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} وهذا النسب الصوفي خلفية أسرية: فلا يسمي أي مصدر مذهباً أو انتساباً لطريقة لحسين نفسه، وتعطي ويكيداتا ديانته الإسلام فقط.{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسيرته السياسية",
     "markdown": "دخل سياسة كلكتا في العشرينيات فصار نائب عمدتها وبرز قائداً لفرع الرابطة الإسلامية في البنغال.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} وفي نيسان 1946 خلف خواجة ناظم الدين في رئاسة وزراء البنغال، وظل في المنصب عبر يوم العمل المباشر وتقسيم البنغال — الذي عارضه مقترحاً بنغالاً موحدة ذات سيادة — حتى الاستقلال.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} وفي باكستان أسس رابطة عوامي وعمل وزيراً للقانون وقاد المعارضة ثم صار رئيساً للوزراء في أيلول 1956 واستقال في تشرين الأول 1957؛ وبعد انقلاب 1958 سجنته حكومة الأحكام العرفية.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "توفي بأزمة قلبية في بيروت في 5 كانون الأول 1963 ودُفن في دكا بجوار خواجة ناظم الدين وأبي القاسم فضل الحق في ضريح القادة الثلاثة.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}}"
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (8 September 1892 – 5 December 1963) was a Bengali statesman, the last prime minister of undivided Bengal (1946–1947) and the fifth prime minister of Pakistan (1956–1957).{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} He founded the Awami League and led the United Front that swept the 1954 East Bengal elections.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Family and early life",
     "markdown": "He was born on 8 September 1892 at Midnapore. The English article traces the Suhrawardy family to Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi, the twelfth-century Baghdad Sufi after whom the Suhrawardiyya order is named, and describes his grandfather Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy as a Dhaka-based Sufi leader; his father, Justice Sir Zahid Suhrawardy, was a judge of the Calcutta High Court.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} That Sufi lineage is his family's background: no source names a school or an order affiliation for Huseyn himself, and Wikidata gives his religion as Islam only.{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Political career",
     "markdown": "He entered Calcutta politics in the 1920s, became deputy mayor of Calcutta, and emerged as a leader of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} In April 1946 he succeeded Khawaja Nazimuddin as prime minister of Bengal, the office he held through Direct Action Day, the partition of Bengal — against which he proposed a united sovereign Bengal — and independence.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} In Pakistan he founded the Awami League, served as law minister, led the opposition, and became prime minister in September 1956, resigning in October 1957; after the 1958 coup he was jailed by the martial-law government.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died of a heart attack at Beirut on 5 December 1963 and was buried in Dhaka beside Khawaja Nazimuddin and A. K. Fazlul Huq in the Mausoleum of Three Leaders.{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حسین شہید سہروردی (8 ستمبر 1892ء – 5 دسمبر 1963ء) بنگالی مدبر تھے، غیر منقسم بنگال کے آخری وزیر اعظم (1946ء–1947ء) اور پاکستان کے پانچویں وزیر اعظم (1956ء–1957ء)۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ur} انھوں نے عوامی لیگ کی بنیاد رکھی اور متحدہ محاذ کی قیادت کی جس نے 1954ء کے مشرقی بنگال کے انتخابات میں کامیابی حاصل کی۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خاندان اور ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ 8 ستمبر 1892ء کو مدناپور میں پیدا ہوئے۔ انگریزی مضمون سہروردی خاندان کا سلسلہ بارہویں صدی کے بغدادی صوفی شہاب الدین عمر سہروردی سے جوڑتا ہے جن کے نام سے سلسلہ سہروردیہ منسوب ہے، اور ان کے دادا عبید اللہ العبیدی سہروردی کو ڈھاکہ کا صوفی رہنما بتاتا ہے؛ ان کے والد جسٹس سر زاہد سہروردی کلکتہ ہائی کورٹ کے جج تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} یہ صوفی سلسلہ ان کی خاندانی پس منظر ہے: کوئی ماخذ حسین کے اپنے کسی مسلک یا سلسلے سے وابستگی کا ذکر نہیں کرتا، اور وکی ڈیٹا میں ان کا مذہب صرف اسلام درج ہے۔{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاسی زندگی",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے بیس کی دہائی میں کلکتہ کی سیاست میں قدم رکھا، شہر کے نائب میئر بنے اور بنگال صوبائی مسلم لیگ کے رہنما کے طور پر ابھرے۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} اپریل 1946ء میں وہ خواجہ ناظم الدین کے بعد بنگال کے وزیر اعظم بنے اور یومِ راست اقدام، بنگال کی تقسیم — جس کی انھوں نے مخالفت کر کے متحدہ خودمختار بنگال کی تجویز پیش کی — اور آزادی تک اس منصب پر رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en} پاکستان میں انھوں نے عوامی لیگ بنائی، وزیر قانون رہے، اپوزیشن کی قیادت کی اور ستمبر 1956ء میں وزیر اعظم بن کر اکتوبر 1957ء میں مستعفی ہوئے؛ 1958ء کی فوجی مداخلت کے بعد مارشل لا حکومت نے انھیں قید بھی کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کا انتقال 5 دسمبر 1963ء کو بیروت میں دل کا دورہ پڑنے سے ہوا اور وہ ڈھاکہ میں خواجہ ناظم الدین اور ابو القاسم فضل الحق کے پہلو میں تین قائدین کے مزار میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}"
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     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-huseyn-shaheed-suhrawardy}}"
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