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 "id": "person/shahab-ud-din-virk",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "شهاب الدين ويرك",
  "en": "Shahab-ud-Din Virk",
  "ur": "شہاب الدین ویرک"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "محامٍ وسياسي بنجابي من مقاطعة سيالكوت في الهند البريطانية (توفي 1946)، انتُخب لعضوية المجلس التشريعي في البنجاب سنة 1923 وتولى رئاسته ثلاث دورات متتالية (1925–1936)، ثم كان أول رئيس لمجلس البنجاب التشريعي بعد إنشائه (1937–1945). لا تسجل المصادر المتاحة تاريخ ميلاده.",
  "en": "Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India from Sialkot District (died 1946), elected to the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923 and its President for three consecutive terms (1925–1936), then the first Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1945. No consulted source records his birth date.",
  "ur": "برطانوی ہند میں ضلع سیالکوٹ کے پنجابی وکیل و سیاست دان (وفات 1946)، جو 1923 میں پنجاب قانون ساز کونسل کے رکن بنے اور 1925 تا 1936 تین مسلسل مدتوں تک اس کے صدر رہے، پھر 1937 تا 1945 پنجاب قانون ساز اسمبلی کے پہلے سپیکر رہے۔ ان کی تاریخ پیدائش کسی ماخذ میں درج نہیں۔"
 },
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  "latest": 1946.998843234258
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   "edtf": "1946",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Died at Lahore in 1946: the English article states it and Wikidata carries the same year. No consulted source gives a day or month, and no source gives a Hijri pairing (the year spans 1365–1366 AH), so the block carries no hijri value. The record carries no born block: no consulted source gives a birth date at all — the article's category files him under year of birth missing and Wikidata has no birth value — and the lane queue's 1875 for this line is corroborated by no source and is not followed.",
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    "value": "Shahab-ud-Din Virk",
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    "value": "Chaudhry Shahab-ud-Din",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "شهاب الدين ويرك",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "شہاب الدین ویرک",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Shahabuddin",
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   {
    "value": "Chaudhry Shahabuddin",
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    "value": "Chaudhry",
    "kind": "laqab"
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   {
    "value": "Khan Bahadur",
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   "edtf": "1946",
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   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Died at Lahore in 1946: the English article states it and Wikidata carries the same year. No consulted source gives a day or month, and no source gives a Hijri pairing (the year spans 1365–1366 AH), so the block carries no hijri value. The record carries no born block: no consulted source gives a birth date at all — the article's category files him under year of birth missing and Wikidata has no birth value — and the lane queue's 1875 for this line is corroborated by no source and is not followed.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "His school is not recorded: no consulted source names a school for him. The English article states that he was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe from Sialkot District, citing Talbot (2013) and a Brill volume of 2022 — that is family background and tribal ancestry, which never count as an attestation of a man's own school. Wikidata carries no religion value at all, and no Arabic or Urdu article exists. Under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Shahab-ud-Din Virk' (revision 1355283366) and Wikidata item Q29537444 (item revision 2032580089), each fetched by its recorded revision id through the MediaWiki API with the returned id asserted equal before use; the article's revision and the item's last revision were re-queried and matched a second time. Existence checks by name fragments (shahab, shahabuddin, virk, شهاب) across data/person, by Arabic label, by QID and by biography (Punjabi lawyer-politician of Sialkot, Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly 1937–1945, died 1946) found no prior record for this man. The Wikidata item's only sitelink is the English article, so no Arabic or Urdu Wikipedia article exists; the Arabic and Urdu prose are written from the English source and say so. The only relation written is died_in Lahore: he was born in Sialkot District, for which no place entity exists, and no person relation is attested to a record that exists — the English article on Mumtaz Daultana calls Shahab-ud-Din that man's uncle, but Mumtaz's own record carries the kinship in prose, there being no avuncular predicate. The lane queue gives 'Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din (1875–1946)'; the death year is confirmed by both sources, but no consulted source gives any birth date, so the queue's 1875 is not followed and the record carries no born block.",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "چودري السير شهاب الدين ويرك (توفي 1946) محامٍ وسياسي بنجابي من الهند البريطانية. تولى رئاسة المجلس التشريعي في البنجاب ثلاث دورات متتالية بين 1925 و1936، وحين حلّ مجلس البنجاب التشريعي محلّ ذلك المجلس صار أول رئيس له، فخدم من نيسان 1937 إلى آذار 1945. لا توجد له مقالة في ويكيبيديا العربية أو الأردية؛ كُتب هذا العرض من المقالة الإنجليزية وعنصر ويكيداتا، ولا يسجل أي مصدر متاح تاريخ ميلاده. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في أسرة جات مسلمة من قبيلة ويرك في مقاطعة سيالكوت بالبنجاب، كما تروي المقالة عن أسرته مستندة إلى دراسة تالبوت عن حزب الاتحاد في البنجاب ومجلد لبريل عن باكستان. وتلقى تعليمه في الكلية الحكومية في لاهور. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "انتُخب سنة 1912 لعضوية لجنة بلدية لاهور. وصار عضوًا في المجلس التشريعي في البنجاب سنة 1923، وانتُخب رئيسًا له ثلاث دورات متتالية بين 1925 و1936. ومُنح لقب فارس في قائمة تكريمات رأس السنة 1930. وفي سنة 1936 حلّ مجلس البنجاب التشريعي محل المجلس القديم، فتولى رئاسته بين نيسان 1937 وآذار 1945. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي في لاهور سنة 1946. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- المصادر المعرّفة المستشهد بها أعلاه، وهي مسجلة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تكون مراجعات هذه المقالة مؤرخة، وأن تسمّي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/shahab-ud-din-virk",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India. He presided over the Punjab Legislative Council for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936, and when that council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly he became its first Speaker, serving from April 1937 to March 1945. No Arabic or Urdu Wikipedia article exists for him; this account is written from the English article and the Wikidata item, and no consulted source records his birth date. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "He was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe hailing from Sialkot District in the Punjab — as the article records his family background, citing Talbot's study of the Punjab Unionist Party and a Brill volume on Pakistan. He was educated at Government College in Lahore. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "In 1912 he was elected to the Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected its President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930. In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and he served as the Assembly's Speaker between April 1937 and March 1945. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died at Lahore in 1946. {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/shahab-ud-din-virk",
    "lang": "en",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "چودھری سر شہاب الدین ویرک (وفات 1946) برطانوی ہند کے پنجابی وکیل اور سیاست دان تھے۔ وہ 1925 سے 1936 تک تین مسلسل مدتوں کے لیے پنجاب قانون ساز کونسل کے صدر رہے، اور جب اس کونسل کی جگہ پنجاب قانون ساز اسمبلی بنی تو وہ اس کے پہلے سپیکر بنے اور اپریل 1937 سے مارچ 1945 تک اس عہدے پر رہے۔ ان کی کوئی اردو یا عربی ویکیپیڈیا مقالے موجود نہیں؛ یہ تعارف انگریزی مقالے اور وکی ڈیٹا سے لکھا گیا ہے، اور کسی ماخذ میں ان کی تاریخ پیدائش درج نہیں۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ ضلع سیالکوٹ کے ویرک قبیلے کے ایک مسلم جاٹ خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے، جیسا کہ مقالے نے ان کے خاندانی پس منظر کو درج کیا ہے۔ انہوں نے گورنمنٹ کالج لاہور میں تعلیم پائی۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عملی زندگی",
     "markdown": "1912 میں وہ لاہور میونسپل کمیٹی کے رکن بنے۔ 1923 میں پنجاب قانون ساز کونسل کے رکن بنے اور 1925 سے 1936 تک تین مسلسل مدتوں تک اس کے صدر رہے۔ 1930 کے نئے سال کے اعزازات میں انہیں نائٹ بیچلر بنایا گیا۔ 1937 سے 1945 تک وہ پنجاب قانون ساز اسمبلی کے سپیکر رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "ان کی وفات 1946 میں لاہور میں ہوئی۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahab-ud-din-virk-en} {cite:wikidata-shahab-ud-din-virk}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- اوپر جن تعریف شدہ ماخذوں کا حوالہ دیا گیا ہے، وہ `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مضمون کی ہر ترمیم مؤرخ ہونی چاہیے اور اس ماخذ کا نام ہونا چاہیے جس نے ہر واقعہ بدلا۔"
    }
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