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  "ar": "علي محمد راشدي",
  "en": "Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi",
  "ur": "پیر علی محمد راشدی"
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  "ar": "صحافي وسياسي ودبلوماسي سندي (1905–1987) من عائلة بير راشدي في بهمن بلاركانا: من أركان الرابطة الإسلامية في السند، ووزير في السند ثم وزير اتحادي للإعلام والإذاعة، وسفير باكستان في الفلبين والصين، وصاحب المذكرات السندية الكلاسيكية «اھے ڈینھن اھے شینھن». وهو أخو المؤرخ حسام الدين راشدي الأكبر.",
  "en": "Sindhi journalist, politician and diplomat (1905–1987) of the Rashidi pir family of Bahman in Larkana: a leading Sindh Muslim Leaguer, provincial and then federal minister for information and broadcasting, Pakistan's ambassador to the Philippines and to China, and author of the classic Sindhi memoirs Uhee Denhin Uhee Shenih. He was the elder brother of the historian Pir Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi.",
  "ur": "سندھی صحافی، سیاست دان اور سفارت کار ⁦(1905ء–1987ء)⁩ جن کا تعلق لاڑکانہ کے بہمن گاؤں کے راشدی پیر خاندان سے تھا: سندھ مسلم لیگ کے ممتاز رہنما، صوبائی اور پھر وفاقی وزیر اطلاعات و نشریات، فلپائن اور چین میں پاکستان کے سفیر، اور کلاسیکی سندھی یادداشتوں «اھے ڈینھن اھے شینھن» کے مصنف۔ وہ مؤرخ پیر حسام الدین راشدی کے بڑے بھائی تھے۔"
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   "note": "The English, Urdu and Sindhi articles and Wikidata all give 5 August 1905, at the village of Bahman in Ratodero Taluka, Larkana District. The Sindhi article, citing G. M. Syed's Janab Guzarium Jin Sein, pairs the birth with 12 Jumada al-Thani 1323 AH; the tabular conversion falls a few days earlier in the same month, and the year 1323 — the figure the source itself attests — is what is recorded. No born_in relation is written: no place entity exists for Bahman, Ratodero or Larkana.",
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    "note": "FLAGGED: he was born into the Rashidi family of Bahman, hereditary pirs whom the Sindhi article traces to Pir Muhammad Rashid Rozay Dhani; he is himself styled Pir in the Sindhi, Urdu and Persian articles, and he founded the Anjuman Sadaat Rashidia. Descent from a Sufi founder, a hereditary Pir title and a family association of Rashidi Sayyids are family background and office, not a personal attestation: no text read attests his own initiation, discipleship, ijaza, order membership or Sufi teaching, and no article names a school or order for him personally, while Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general (Q432), which never counts. Under the family and headship line and the doubt rule the value stays unknown, with the reading preserved here; a founder word accepting hereditary pir descent as attestation would settle sufi / documented.",
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