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Raza Ali Dar

Pakistani cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ21642228 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raza Ali Dar (born 11 December 1987) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for Lahore cricket team. He made his first-class debut for Karachi Port Trust against Zarai Traqiata Bank Limited at Peshawar on 15 December 2003. In April 2018, he was named in Federal Areas' squad for the 2018 Pakistan Cup.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Raza Ali Dar” is pakistani cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Raza, Pakistani and cricketer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2003, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-11. For this dossier, Raza, Pakistani and cricketer is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “pakistani cricketer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21642228. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2003 and 2018.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Raza Ali Dar” 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.