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Abdul Malik Kakar

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ47381447 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abdul Malik Kakar is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan from May 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 6 July 1954 in Pishin District.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan as a candidate of Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F) from Constituency PB-9-Pishin-II in the 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 15,818 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Asfand Yar Kakar.

Editorial summary

“Abdul Malik Kakar” enters the record as politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Abdul, Malik and Kakar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2018, 1954—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-07-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Abdul, Malik and Kakar.
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“Abdul Malik Kakar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Abdul, Malik and Kakar provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47381447. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2018 and 1954.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abdul Malik Kakar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.