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Muhammad Iqbal Butt

Pakistani weightlifter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ79459459 ↗
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Muhammad Iqbal Butt (born 11 December 1929) was a Pakistani weightlifter. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1948, and 1952 Summer Olympics and in the men's light-heavyweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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“Muhammad Iqbal Butt” enters the record as pakistani weightlifter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Muhammad, Iqbal and Butt can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 1948, 1952, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-12-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Muhammad, Iqbal and Butt.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q79459459. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1948, 1952 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Muhammad Iqbal Butt” 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.