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  "ar": "شهاب الدين أحمد",
  "en": "Shahabuddin Ahmed",
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  "ar": "قاضٍ ورجل دولة بنغلاديشي (1 فبراير 1930 – 19 مارس 2022)، رئيس قضاة بنغلاديش من 1990 إلى 1995، تولى الرئاسة بالوكالة في 1990–1991 على رأس الحكومة المؤقتة التي أجرت انتخابات 1991 العامة، ثم انتُخب رئيسًا لولاية كاملة من 1996 إلى 2001. بدأ مسيرته في الخدمة المدنية الباكستانية سنة 1954 وانتقل إلى القضاء سنة 1960، وترأس جمعية الهلال الأحمر البنغلاديشية من 1978 إلى 1982.",
  "en": "Bangladeshi jurist and statesman (1 February 1930 – 19 March 2022), chief justice of Bangladesh from 1990 to 1995, who as acting president in 1990–91 headed the interim government that held the February 1991 general election, and then served a full presidential term from 1996 to 2001. He began in the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1954, moved to the judicial branch in 1960, and chaired the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society from 1978 to 1982.",
  "ur": "بنگلہ دیشی منصف اور سیاست دان (1 فروری 1930ء – 19 مارچ 2022ء)، 1990ء سے 1995ء تک بنگلہ دیش کے چیف جسٹس رہے؛ 1990ء–1991ء میں قائم مقام صدر کی حیثیت سے عبوری حکومت کی سربراہی کی جس نے 1991ء کے عام انتخابات کرائے، پھر 1996ء سے 2001ء تک مکمل صدارتی مدت پوری کی۔ انھوں نے 1954ء میں پاکستان کی سول سروس سے آغاز کیا اور 1960ء میں عدلیہ میں منتقل ہوئے۔"
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   "note": "Born on 1 February 1930 at Pemai village, Kendua, in the Netrokona district of Bengal, British India; the English and Arabic articles agree, and Banglapedia, cited throughout the English article, gives the same. No born_in relation is written: Pemai and Kendua have no museum place entity. The Hijri year (1348) is derived by tabular conversion.",
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   "edtf": "2022-03-19",
   "hijri": "1443",
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   "note": "Died on 19 March 2022, aged 92, at the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, after admission to intensive care with an age-related illness in February 2022; the English and Arabic articles agree. The Hijri year (1443) is derived by tabular conversion.",
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    "value": "شهاب الدين أحمد",
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    "note": "Recorded unknown, flagged — the only attestation naming a religion for him is one structured family, naming Islam generically and no school. The Arabic article's infobox gives his religion as Islam, and the same generic value appears in other language editions' infoboxes (Basque, Asturian) — one structured attestation family, not several independent sources. The English article carries no religion field and no statement of his own affiliation anywhere: its Islam-related content is institutional activity — his chairmanship of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (1978–1982) and his membership of the Bangladesh government delegation to the 1979 conference of foreign ministers of Islamic countries at Fez — which is office and activity, not attestation. No text names a school for him personally, so under the doubt rule the value stays unknown, with the single structured attestation preserved here.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "شهاب الدين أحمد (1 فبراير 1930 – 19 مارس 2022) قاضٍ ورجل دولة بنغلاديشي، رئيس قضاة بنغلاديش من 1990 إلى 1995، تولى الرئاسة مرتين: رئيسًا بالوكالة في 1990–1991 على رأس الحكومة المؤقتة التي أجرت انتخابات فبراير 1991 العامة، ثم رئيسًا لولاية كاملة من 1996 إلى 2001. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد أحمد في قرية بيماي، في كندوا بقضاء نيتروكونا حاليًا، ابنًا لتلوكدار ريسات أحمد بويان، من أهل الإحسان والعمل الاجتماعي. التحق بجامعة دكا سنة 1948 فنال البكالوريوس في الاقتصاد سنة 1951 والماجستير في العلاقات الدولية سنة 1952، وحضر دورة خاصة في الإدارة العامة في جامعة أكسفورد. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "التحق أحمد بالخدمة المدنية الباكستانية سنة 1954 وتدرب في أكاديمية لاهور للخدمة المدنية وفي أكسفورد، وعمل قاضي صلح ومسؤولًا إقليميًا قبل أن ينتقل إلى القضاء سنة 1960. جلس قاضيًا للمقاطعات والجلسات، وعمل مسجلًا للمحكمة العليا في دكا من 1967، ورُقّي إلى قضاة المحكمة العليا في 20 يناير 1972، وانضم إلى الشعبة الاستئنافية في المحكمة العليا سنة 1980. وترأس جمعية الهلال الأحمر البنغلاديشية من 1978 إلى 1982 وأنشأ في إطارها مستشفيات ريفية ومراكز أمومة. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكومة المؤقتة والرئاسة",
     "markdown": "عُيّن أحمد رئيسًا للقضاة في 14 يناير 1990، وصار نائبًا للرئيس في 6 ديسمبر 1990 يوم بلغت الانتفاضة الشعبية ضد الرئيس إرشاد ذروتها؛ فاستقال إرشاد في اليوم نفسه وصار أحمد رئيسًا بالوكالة باختيار جميع الأحزاب السياسية ليرأس حكومة مؤقتة محايدة. وبعد انتخابات 27 فبراير 1991 سلّم السلطة إلى رئيسة الوزراء خالدة ضيا، واستقال من الرئاسة في 9 أكتوبر 1991 وعاد إلى رئاسة القضاء حتى تقاعد في 1 فبراير 1995. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}\n\nوانتُخب رئيسًا دون منافس في 23 يوليو 1996 مرشحًا لحكومة رابطة عوامي، وأدى اليمين في 9 أكتوبر 1996 وبقي حتى 14 نوفمبر 2001. ولما خسرت رابطة عوامي انتخابات 2001 وصفته شيخة حسينة بأنه «خائن»، فردّ كما تنقل المقالة: «أنا ملاك إن فُعل ما يرضيهم، وشيطان في ما عدا ذلك». {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة الشخصية والوفاة",
     "markdown": "تزوّج أحمد أنوارا بيغوم ولهما ابنان وثلاث بنات. وسُمّيت حديقة بحيرة في غولشان بدكا باسمه سنة 2008. أُدخل العناية المركزة في المستشفى العسكري المشترك بدكا في فبراير 2022 بمرض مرتبط بالشيخوخة، وتوفي فيه في 19 مارس 2022 عن 92 سنة. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المذكورة أعلاه، والمدوّنة في `data/source/`.\n- يجب أن تُؤرَّخ مراجعات هذه المقالة، وأن تسمّي المصدر الذي غيّر كل واقعة."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Shahabuddin Ahmed (1 February 1930 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman who served as chief justice of Bangladesh from 1990 to 1995 and as president twice: as acting president in 1990–91, heading the interim government that held the February 1991 general election, and for a full term from 1996 to 2001. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Ahmed was born at Pemai village, in what is now Kendua, Netrokona District, the son of Talukdar Resat Ahmed Bhuiyan, a philanthropist. He entered the University of Dhaka in 1948, taking a bachelor's degree in economics in 1951 and a master's in international relations in 1952, and attended a special course in public administration at the University of Oxford. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "He joined the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1954, trained at the Lahore Civil Services Academy and at Oxford, and served as a magistrate and sub-divisional officer before transferring to the judicial branch in 1960. He sat as a district and sessions judge, served as registrar of the High Court at Dhaka from 1967, was elevated to the High Court bench on 20 January 1972, and joined the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 1980. He chaired the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society from 1978 to 1982 and set up rural hospitals and maternity centres under its auspices. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Interim government and presidency",
     "markdown": "Appointed chief justice on 14 January 1990, Ahmed was made vice-president on 6 December 1990, the day the mass uprising against President Ershad culminated; Ershad resigned the same day and Ahmed became acting president, chosen by all political parties to head a neutral interim government. After the election of 27 February 1991 he handed power to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, resigned the presidency on 9 October 1991 and returned to the chief justiceship, retiring on 1 February 1995. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}\n\nElected president unopposed on 23 July 1996 as the Awami League government's nominee, he was sworn in on 9 October 1996 and retired on 14 November 2001. When the Awami League lost the 2001 elections, Sheikh Hasina dubbed him a \"betrayer\"; he replied, as the article quotes him, \"I am an angel if anything is done according to their desire, otherwise I am a devil.\" {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Personal life and death",
     "markdown": "Ahmed was married to Anowara Begum; they had two sons and three daughters. A lake park in Gulshan, Dhaka, was named the Rastrapati Bicharpati Shahabuddin Ahmed Park in his honour in 2008. Admitted to intensive care at the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, in February 2022 with an age-related illness, he died there on 19 March 2022, aged 92. {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "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."
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شہاب الدین احمد (1 فروری 1930ء – 19 مارچ 2022ء) بنگلہ دیشی منصف اور سیاست دان تھے، 1990ء سے 1995ء تک بنگلہ دیش کے چیف جسٹس رہے۔ 1990ء–1991ء میں قائم مقام صدر کی حیثیت سے عبوری حکومت کی سربراہی کی جس نے فروری 1991ء کے عام انتخابات کرائے، پھر 1996ء سے 2001ء تک مکمل صدارتی مدت پوری کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور پیشہ",
     "markdown": "احمد پیمائی گاؤں (کندوا، موجودہ نیٹروکونا) میں پیدا ہوئے۔ ڈھاکہ یونیورسٹی سے 1951ء میں معاشیات اور 1952ء میں بین الاقوامی تعلقات میں ڈگریاں حاصل کیں۔ 1954ء میں پاکستان کی سول سروس میں شامل ہوئے اور 1960ء میں عدلیہ میں منتقل ہو گئے؛ 1972ء میں ہائی کورٹ کے جج اور 1980ء میں سپریم کورٹ کی اپیلٹ ڈویژن کے جج بنے۔ 1978ء سے 1982ء تک بنگلہ دیش ہلالِ احمر سوسائٹی کے صدر رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عبوری حکومت اور صدارت",
     "markdown": "وہ 14 جنوری 1990ء کو چیف جسٹس بنے۔ 6 دسمبر 1990ء کو، صدر ارشاد کے خلاف عوامی بغاوت کے اختتام پر، وہ نائب صدر بنے اور اسی دن ارشاد کے استعفے کے بعد قائم مقام صدر ہو گئے۔ تمام سیاسی جماعتوں نے انھیں غیر جانبدار عبوری حکومت کی سربراہی کے لیے منتخب کیا تھا۔ 27 فروری 1991ء کے انتخابات کے بعد انھوں نے اقتدار وزیر اعظم خالدہ ضیا کے حوالے کیا اور چیف جسٹس کے عہدے پر واپس آ گئے۔ 1996ء میں بلا مقابلہ صدر منتخب ہوئے اور 14 نومبر 2001ء کو سبکدوش ہوئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "احمد فروری 2022ء میں بڑھاپے سے متعلق بیماری کے باعث مشترکہ فوجی ہسپتال ڈھاکہ کی انتہائی نگہداشت میں داخل ہوئے اور 19 مارچ 2022ء کو 92 سال کی عمر میں وہیں وفات پا گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahabuddin-ahmed-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- اوپر مذکور معرّف مصدر اکائیاں، جو `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔\n- اس مقالے کی ہر نظر ثانی کی تاریخ درج ہونی چاہیے اور ہر بدلی ہوئی حقیقت کا مصدر نامزد ہونا چاہیے۔"
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