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  "ar": "شاهد خان",
  "en": "Shahid Khan",
  "ur": "شاہد خان"
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  "ar": "شاهد رفيق خان ⁦(وُلد في ١٨ تموز ١٩٥٠ في لاهور)⁩ رجل أعمال باكستاني أمريكي يملك شركة فليكس-إن-غيت لقطع السيارات ونادي جاكسونفيل جاغوارز في دوري كرة القدم الأمريكية ونادي فولهام الإنجليزي؛ انتقل إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة ١٩٦٧ طالبًا للهندسة في جامعة إلينوي، واشترى فليكس-إن-غيت سنة ١٩٨٠ وبنى منها واحدة من أكبر شركات قطع السيارات الخاصة، وأصبح سنة ٢٠١٢ أول مالك لفريق في الدوري الأمريكي من أقلية عرقية.",
  "en": "Shahid Rafiq Khan (born 18 July 1950 in Lahore) is a Pakistani-American businessman who owns the Flex-N-Gate auto-parts company, the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL and Fulham F.C.; he moved to the United States in 1967 to study engineering at the University of Illinois, bought Flex-N-Gate in 1980 and built it into one of the largest private auto-parts suppliers, and in 2012 became the first ethnic-minority owner of an NFL team.",
  "ur": "شاہد رفیق خان ⁦(پیدائش 18 جولائی 1950، لاہور)⁩ پاکستانی نژاد امریکی کاروباری ہیں، فلیکس-این-گیٹ، جیکسن وِل جیگوارز اور فلہم فٹبال کلب کے مالک؛ وہ 1967 میں انجینئرنگ پڑھنے امریکہ گئے، 1980 میں فلیکس-این-گیٹ خرید کر اسے آٹو پارٹس کی بڑی نجی کمپنی بنایا، اور 2012 میں این ایف ایل ٹیم کے پہلے نسلی اقلیتی مالک بنے۔"
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    "note": "Khan has described himself as a Muslim in his own words in more than one text: asked his religion by the Jaguars' own site in 2011 he answered 'it's Muslim', and in his June 2020 ESPN essay he wrote of 'being a Muslim-American' made him a target of prejudice; the English article describes him as a non-observant (in an earlier reading, cultural) Muslim, born into a Punjabi Muslim family. That self-description names no school or order for the man himself, so no school value can be recorded. The value is therefore unknown, with his statements preserved here in full.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia article 'Shahid Rafiq Khan' revision 1379973283 of 13 October 2026; Arabic Wikipedia article 'شاهد خان' revision 75234986 of 9 June 2026; Wikidata item Q2276408 revision 2538474183 of 31 August 2026 (all retrieved live in-session on 2 November 2026 via the MediaWiki API; the Wikidata revision re-asserted identical on a second query, and the item carries a religion statement of Islam generically (Q432), which under the lane's rules records as unknown). His Muslim self-description was verified in-session in the jaguars.com interview and his 2020 ESPN essay; it names no school, so the value stays unknown under the brief's instruction for this subject. The born_in edge targets place/lahore, verified present on origin/main in-session. No record or draft stub for him existed on main (checked against origin/main on 2 November 2026 by slug, name fragments and QID). The queue's 1950 birth year is correct.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ملخص",
     "markdown": "شاهد رفيق خان ⁦(وُلد سنة 1950)⁩ رجل أعمال باكستاني أمريكي يملك نادي جاكسونفيل جاغوارز في الدوري الأمريكي لكرة القدم ونادي فولهام الإنجليزي وشركة فليكس-إن-غيت لقطع السيارات، وظهر على غلاف فوربس سنة 2012 بوصفه وجه الحلم الأمريكي {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته",
     "markdown": "وُلد خان في 18 تموز 1950 في لاهور في أسرة بنجابية مسلمة متوسطة الحال تعمل في البناء؛ كان أبوه صاحب متجر لمعدات المساحة وأمه أستاذة رياضيات {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}. انتقل إلى الولايات المتحدة سنة 1967 وهو في السادسة عشرة للدراسة في جامعة إلينوي في أوربانا-شامبين، وعمل أول ما عمل غاسل أطباق، وتخرج في الهندسة الصناعية سنة 1971، ونال الجنسية الأمريكية سنة 1991 {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أعماله",
     "markdown": "أسس خان شركة بمبر ووركس سنة 1978 واشترى فليكس-إن-غيت، مشغّله السابق، سنة 1980 فنمّاها حتى أصبحت مورّدة للثلاثة الكبار ولتويوتا في أنحاء الولايات المتحدة {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}. اشترى جاكسونفيل جاغوارز مقابل 770 مليون دولار ووافق مالكو الدوري بالإجماع في كانون الأول 2011 فأصبح أول مالك لفريق في الدوري من أقلية عرقية، واشترى فولهام من محمد الفايد في تموز 2013 {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}. وهو مع ابنه توني مستثمر رئيسي في اتحاد أول إيليت للمصارعة {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}. وصف خان نفسه بكلماته بأنه مسلم، وهو وصف لا يسمي مذهبًا، ولذلك سُجل دينه غير معروف مع حفظ أقواله في حاشية البيانات {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Shahid Rafiq Khan (born 1950) is a Pakistani-American businessman who owns the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL, Fulham F.C. of the Premier League and the Flex-N-Gate auto-parts company, and appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2012 as the face of the American Dream {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Khan was born on 18 July 1950 in Lahore to a middle-class Punjabi Muslim family in the construction industry; his father ran a survey-equipment shop and his mother was a professor of mathematics {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}. He moved to the United States in 1967 at sixteen to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked his first job washing dishes, graduated in industrial engineering in 1971, and became a naturalised citizen in 1991 {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Work",
     "markdown": "Khan started Bumper Works in 1978 and bought Flex-N-Gate, his former employer, in 1980, growing it into a supplier to the Big Three and to Toyota across the United States {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}. He bought the Jacksonville Jaguars for 770 million dollars, approved unanimously by NFL owners in December 2011, becoming the first ethnic-minority owner of an NFL team, and bought Fulham from Mohamed Al-Fayed in July 2013 {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}. With his son Tony he is a lead investor in All Elite Wrestling {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}. Khan has described himself in his own words as a Muslim, which names no school, so his faith is recorded as unknown with his statements preserved in the data note {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "شاہد رفیق خان (پیدائش 1950) پاکستانی نژاد امریکی کاروباری ہیں، جیکسن وِل جیگوارز، فلہم فٹبال کلب اور فلیکس-این-گیٹ کے مالک، جو 2012 میں فوربز کے سرورق پر «امریکی خواب کا چہرہ» قرار پائے {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و کام",
     "markdown": "خان 18 جولائی 1950 کو لاہور کے ایک متوسط پنجابی مسلم خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}۔ وہ 1967 میں سولہ برس کی عمر میں امریکہ گئے، انجینئرنگ پڑھی، اور 1991 میں امریکی شہری بنے {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}۔ 1980 میں فلیکس-این-گیٹ خرید کر انھوں نے اسے آٹو پارٹس کی بڑی کمپنی بنایا، 2011 میں جیگوارز خرید کر این ایف ایل کے پہلے نسلی اقلیتی مالک بنے، اور 2013 میں فلہم خریدا {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}۔ خان نے اپنے الفاظ میں خود کو مسلمان کہا ہے؛ یہ وصفی کسی مسلک کا نام نہیں لیتی، اس لیے ان کا مذہب غیر معلوم درج ہے اور ان کے بیانات ڈیٹا نوٹ میں محفوظ ہیں {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en} {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar} {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}۔"
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     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-shahid-khan-ar}\n- {cite:wikidata-shahid-khan}"
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