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Syed Abbas Ali Shah

politician in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ55822302 ↗
Source-derived summary

Syed Abbas Ali Shah is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023.

Syed Abbas Ali Shah has completed his highschool from Aitchison College, Lahore. He has been politically active for quite a while and is the parliamentary secretary for law and parliamentary affairs.

Political career

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from Constituency PP-207 (Khanewal-V) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.

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

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—2018, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Syed, Abbas and Shah providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55822302. 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 “Syed Abbas Ali Shah” 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.