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Qazi Mahabub Ahmed

Bangladeshi politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ85975159 ↗
Source-derived summary

Qazi Mahabub Ahmed (born 11 November 1950) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Faridpur-12 and Madaripur-2.

Career

Ahmed was elected to parliament from Faridpur-12 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. He was elected to parliament from Madaripur-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Qazi Mahabub Ahmed” as bangladeshi politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Qazi, Mahabub and Ahmed.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1979, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Qazi, Mahabub and Ahmed providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Qazi Mahabub Ahmed”, the useful work is to connect “bangladeshi politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85975159. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1979 and 1996.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Qazi Mahabub Ahmed” 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.