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Zar Alam Khan

Pakistani politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ124513075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zar Alam Khan is a Pakistani politician from Nowshera District. He is currently serving as a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since February 2024.

Career

He contested the 2024 general elections as a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/Independent candidate from PK-85 Nowshera-I. He secured 32,075 votes. The runner-up was Hamid Ali Khan of Awami National Party who secured 11,056 votes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zar Alam Khan” as pakistani politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alam, Khan and Pakistani.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alam, Khan and Pakistani 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 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q124513075. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zar Alam Khan” 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.