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Arif Masih Bhatti

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ47501194 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arif Masih Bhatti is a Pakistani politician who had been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, from June 2013 to May 2018.

Early life

He was born on 11 April 1970 in Sialkot.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on reserved seat for minorities in the 2013 Pakistani general election.

In June 2017, he quit MQM to join Pakistan Peoples Party.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Arif Masih Bhatti” as politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arif, Masih and Bhatti.

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, 1970, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-04-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arif, Masih and Bhatti providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47501194. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2018, 1970 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arif Masih Bhatti” 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.