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Asif Ali

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ27763405 ↗
Source-derived summary

Asif Ali may refer to:

Asif Ali (auditor general), Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh 2003–2008.

Asif Ali (actor) (born 1986), Indian film actor and producer.

Asif Ali (comedian) (born c. 1988), American comedian and actor.

Asif Ali (cricketer), batsman for Pakistan.

Asif Ali Haider Khan, recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for theatre.

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The public source identifies “Asif Ali” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Asif, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2008, 1986, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Asif, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27763405. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2008, 1986 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Asif Ali” 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.