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Qasim Abbas Khan

politician in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ57339519 ↗
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Qasim Abbas Khan is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from October 2018 till January 2023.

Political career

Khan was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from the constituency PP-222 in the 2018 Pakistani by-elections as an independent candidate. He defeated Sohail Ahmed Noon of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Khan garnered 38,327 votes while his closest rival secured 31,893 votes.

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The public source identifies “Qasim Abbas Khan” as politician in Pakistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Qasim, Abbas and Khan.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q57339519. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Qasim Abbas Khan” 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.