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  "ar": "لياقت علي خان",
  "en": "Liaquat Ali Khan",
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  "ar": "رجل دولة باكستاني (1895–1951) من كرنال، أول رئيس وزراء لباكستان (1947–1951) واليد اليمنى لمحمد علي جناح في حركة باكستان. درس في عليكرة وأكسفورد، وكان الأمين العام الفخري للرابطة الإسلامية، واغتيل وهو يخاطب تجمعاً في راولبندي في 16 تشرين الأول 1951 ودُفن في مزار قائد في كراتشي.",
  "en": "Pakistani statesman (1895–1951) of Karnal, the first prime minister of Pakistan (1947–1951) and Muhammad Ali Jinnah's right hand in the Pakistan movement. Educated at Aligarh and Oxford and honorary general secretary of the Muslim League, he was assassinated while addressing a gathering at Rawalpindi on 16 October 1951 and buried at Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi.",
  "ur": "پاکستانی مدبر (1895ء–1951ء) جن کا تعلق کرنال سے تھا، پاکستان کے پہلے وزیر اعظم (1947ء–1951ء) اور تحریک پاکستان میں محمد علی جناح کے دستِ راست۔ علی گڑھ اور آکسفورڈ سے تعلیم پائی اور مسلم لیگ کے اعزازی جنرل سیکریٹری رہے؛ 16 اکتوبر 1951ء کو راولپنڈی میں ایک جلسے سے خطاب کے دوران شہید کر دیے گئے اور کراچی میں مزارِ قائد میں دفن ہوئے۔"
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  "latest": 1951.7901804964877
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   "note": "Born on 1 October 1895 at Karnal in the Punjab, as the English article states citing Kazmi's biography and Lentz's Heads of States and Governments; Wikidata gives the same date. Karnal 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": "Assassinated on 16 October 1951: shot twice in the chest while addressing a gathering at Company Bagh, Rawalpindi, as the English article states citing Dawn and the Express Tribune; the assassin, Said Akbar Babrak, was shot dead by police at the scene. Rawalpindi has no place entity, so no died_in edge is written; he was buried at Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi, and Karachi has no place entity either, so no buried_in edge is written. The Hijri year is a conversion.",
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    "value": "لياقت علي خان",
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    "value": "لیاقت علی خان",
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    "value": "Shaheed-e-Millat",
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    "note": "His school is not recorded: no text names a school for Liaquat Ali Khan, and the readings are preserved here. The English text, citing his published correspondence and Kazmi's biography, records his childhood formation and practice: instructed in the Qur'an and hadith at home, he fasted Ramadan from the age of four and participated in, and even organised and led, tazia processions during Muharram. That is one text family attesting personal practice and devotion; practice and formation are not attestations of a school, and the passage names none. The Urdu and Arabic articles name no school for him, and Wikidata's single religion value is Islam only. His sponsorship of the Objectives Resolution's Islamic framing is a state act of his premiership, not an attestation of his own school.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لياقت علي خان (1 تشرين الأول 1895 – 16 تشرين الأول 1951) رجل دولة باكستاني، أول رئيس وزراء لباكستان من الاستقلال حتى اغتياله سنة 1951، ونائب محمد علي جناح الأول في الرابطة الإسلامية وحركة باكستان.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ar} ويُعرف بلقبي «قائد ملت» وبعد وفاته «شهيد ملت».{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نشأته وتعليمه",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 1 تشرين الأول 1895 في كرنال بالبنجاب، وهو الابن الثاني من أربعة أبناء للمالك نواب رستم علي خان.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} وتسجل المقالة الإنجليزية، مستندة إلى مراسلاته المنشورة وسيرة كاظمي، تنشئته الدينية في طفولته: فقد تعلّم القرآن والحديث في بيته، وصام رمضان منذ سن الرابعة، وشارك في مواكب التعزية في محرم بل نظّمها وقادها.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} وهذا الوصف يشهد على ممارسته وتديّنه ولا يسمي مذهباً، ولا يسمي أي مصدر آخر مذهباً له.{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan} وتلقى تعليمه في جامعة عليكرة الإسلامية وفي أكسفورد ونُودي به إلى نقابة المحامين.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مسيرته السياسية",
     "markdown": "في سنة 1933 أقنع هو وزوجته رعنا جناح في لندن بالعودة إلى الهند وتنظيم الرابطة الإسلامية؛ وفي 1936 صار الأمين العام الفخري للرابطة ونائب قائدها في الجمعية المركزية.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} ولدى الاستقلال في 15 آب 1947 صار أول رئيس وزراء لباكستان محتفظاً بحقيبتي الخارجية والدفاع؛ وأصدرت حكومته قرار الأهداف سنة 1949 وأسست مصرف الدولة والمصرف الوطني وقرّبت باكستان من الولايات المتحدة في مطلع الحرب الباردة.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اغتياله",
     "markdown": "في 16 تشرين الأول 1951 أُطلق عليه الرصاص مرتين في صدره وهو يخاطب تجمعاً ضم نحو مئة ألف شخص في كومباني باغ براولبندي؛ قُتل القاتل سعيد أكبر بابراك برصاص الشرطة في مكان الحادث، ولم يُعرف الدافع قط.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} وبعد جنازته دُفن في مزار قائد، ضريح جناح في كراتشي، وأُعيدت تسمية حديقة اغتياله «لياقت باغ».{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan}}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Liaquat Ali Khan (1 October 1895 – 16 October 1951) was a Pakistani statesman, the first prime minister of Pakistan from independence until his assassination in 1951, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah's principal deputy in the Muslim League and the Pakistan movement.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} He is remembered by the titles Quaid-e-Millat and, after his death, Shaheed-e-Millat.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born on 1 October 1895 at Karnal in the Punjab, the second of four sons of the landowner Nawab Rustam Ali Khan.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} The English article, citing his published correspondence and his biographer Kazmi, records his childhood religious formation: instructed in the Qur'an and hadith at home, he observed the Ramadan fast from the age of four and took part in — and even organised and led — tazia processions during Muharram.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} That account attests his practice and devotion; it names no school, and no other source names one either.{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan} He was educated at Aligarh Muslim University and at Oxford, and was called to the bar.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Political career",
     "markdown": "In 1933 he and his wife Ra'ana persuaded Jinnah in London to return to India and reorganise the Muslim League; in 1936 he became the League's honorary general secretary and its deputy leader in the central assembly.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} At independence on 15 August 1947 he became Pakistan's first prime minister, holding also the foreign affairs and defence portfolios; his government promulgated the Objectives Resolution of 1949, founded the State Bank and National Bank, and aligned Pakistan with the United States in the opening Cold War.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Assassination",
     "markdown": "On 16 October 1951 he was shot twice in the chest while addressing a gathering of some 100,000 people at Company Bagh, Rawalpindi; the assassin, Said Akbar Babrak, was killed by police at the scene, and the motive was never established.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} After his funeral he was buried at Mazar-e-Quaid, Jinnah's mausoleum in Karachi, and the park of his assassination was renamed Liaquat Bagh.{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan}}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لیاقت علی خان (1 اکتوبر 1895ء – 16 اکتوبر 1951ء) پاکستانی مدبر تھے، آزادی سے اپنے قتل تک پاکستان کے پہلے وزیر اعظم، اور مسلم لیگ و تحریک پاکستان میں محمد علی جناح کے اولین نائب۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur} انھیں «قائد ملت» اور وفات کے بعد «شہید ملت» کے القاب سے یاد کیا جاتا ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 1 اکتوبر 1895ء کو پنجاب کے کرنال میں زمیندار نواب رستم علی خان کے چار بیٹوں میں دوسرے نمبر پر پیدا ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} انگریزی مضمون، ان کی شائع شدہ مراسلت اور سوانح نگار کاظمی کے حوالے سے، ان کی بچپن کی دینی تربیت درج کرتا ہے: گھر میں قرآن و حدیث کی تعلیم پانے کے بعد وہ چار سال کی عمر سے رمضان کے روزے رکھتے تھے اور محرم میں تعزیہ جلوسوں میں شریک ہوتے بلکہ ان کی تنظیم و قیادت بھی کرتے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} یہ بیان ان کے عمل و عقیدت کی گواہی دیتا ہے؛ اس میں کوئی مسلک نہیں ملتا، اور کسی دوسرے ماخذ میں بھی نہیں۔{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan} انھوں نے علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی اور آکسفورڈ سے تعلیم پائی اور بار میں بلائے گئے۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاسی زندگی",
     "markdown": "1933ء میں انھوں نے اور ان کی اہلیہ رعنا نے لندن میں جناح کو ہندوستان واپس آ کر مسلم لیگ کو منظم کرنے پر آمادہ کیا؛ 1936ء میں وہ لیگ کے اعزازی جنرل سیکریٹری اور مرکزی اسمبلی میں اس کے نائب قائد بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} 15 اگست 1947ء کو آزادی پر وہ پاکستان کے پہلے وزیر اعظم بنے اور خارجہ و دفاع کے قلمدان بھی اپنے پاس رکھے؛ ان کی حکومت نے 1949ء میں قراردادِ مقاصد جاری کی، اسٹیٹ بینک اور نیشنل بینک قائم کیے اور سرد جنگ کے آغاز میں پاکستان کو امریکا کے قریب کر دیا۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "قتل",
     "markdown": "16 اکتوبر 1951ء کو راولپنڈی کے کمپنی باغ میں تقریباً ایک لاکھ افراد کے اجتماع سے خطاب کے دوران ان کے سینے میں دو گولیاں ماری گئیں؛ قاتل سعید اکبر بابرک موقع پر پولیس کی گولی سے مارا گیا اور اس کا مقصد کبھی معلوم نہ ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en} جنازے کے بعد وہ کراچی میں جناح کے مزارِ قائد میں دفن ہوئے، اور ان کے قتل کے پارک کا نام لیاقت باغ رکھ دیا گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}"
    },
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     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "{{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ur}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-en}} {{cite:wikipedia-liaquat-ali-khan-ar}} {{cite:wikidata-liaquat-ali-khan}}"
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