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Saleem Khursheed Khokhar

Pakistani Politician

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Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ115945694 ↗
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Saleem Khursheed Khokhar is a Pakistani politician from Sindh Province.

Career

Khokhar won three consecutive elections to the Sindh Provincial Assembly in 1990, 1993, and 1997 as a representative of the local Christian community; he secured re-election in 2008 from the Pakistan People's Party. A vocal advocate of minority rights, Khokhar has drawn attention to kidnapping and forced conversion of religious minorities in the region.

Assassination attempts

Khokhar has been subject to multiple assassination attempts; in 2013, armed assailants attacked him in Thatta.

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The public source identifies “Saleem Khursheed Khokhar” as pakistani Politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Saleem, Khursheed and Khokhar.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1993, 1997, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Saleem, Khursheed and Khokhar providing the first useful test.
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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 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115945694. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1993, 1997 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saleem Khursheed Khokhar” 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.