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Mian Muhammad Rashid

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ18816084
Source-derived summary

Mian Muhammad Rashid (Urdu: میاں محمد راشد; born 1 May 1948) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018.He had been elected five-time member of Provisional Assembly of Punjab.

Early life

He was born on 1 May 1948.

Political career

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) from Constituency NA-115 (Narowal-I) in the 2013 Pakistani general election. He received 71,139 votes and defeated an independent candidate, Muhammad Irfan Abid.

In May 2018, he quit PML-N and joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

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The public source identifies “Mian Muhammad Rashid” as politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mian, Muhammad and Rashid.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-05-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mian, Muhammad and Rashid 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 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18816084. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Mian Muhammad Rashid” 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.