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Azhar Laghari

Pakistani politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ124538820 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sardar Muhammad Azhar Khan Laghari (Urdu: سردار محمد اظہر خان لغاری) is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since February 2024.

Political career

Laghari was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in the 2024 Pakistani general election from NA-174 Rahim Yar Khan-VI as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N). He received 78,680 votes while runner-up candidate Syed Usman Mehmood, a candidate of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), received 71,559 votes.

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The public source identifies “Azhar Laghari” as pakistani politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Azhar, Laghari and Pakistani.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Azhar, Laghari and Pakistani providing the first useful test.
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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 Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124538820. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Azhar Laghari” 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.