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Muhammad Shafqat Malik

Pakistani field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ71567701 ↗
Source-derived summary

Muhammad Shafqat Malik (born 7 September 1970) is a Pakistani field hockey player. He competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Muhammad Shafqat Malik” as pakistani field hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Muhammad, Shafqat and Malik.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1996, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Muhammad, Shafqat and Malik 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 “Muhammad Shafqat Malik”, the useful work is to connect “pakistani field hockey player” 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 Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q71567701. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1996 and 2000.

Critical limits

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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Muhammad Shafqat 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.