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Muhammad Arshad Malik

politician in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ47407636 ↗
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Muhammad Arshad Malik is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from May 2013 to May 2018 and from August 2018 to January 2023.

Early life and education

He was born on 18 April 1973 in Sahiwal.

He has the degree of Bachelor of Arts and the degree of Bachelor of Laws which he received from Bahauddin Zakariya University in 2009.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) from Constituency PP-222 (Sahiwal-III) in the 2013 Pakistani general election.

He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-198 (Sahiwal-III) in the 2018 Pakistani general election. His son Hassan Ramzan is studying in Aitchison College.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Muhammad Arshad Malik” is politician in Pakistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Muhammad, Arshad and Malik, not as a finished interpretation.

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, 2023, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-04-18. For this dossier, Muhammad, Arshad and Malik is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47407636. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2018, 2023 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Muhammad Arshad Malik” 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.