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Mian Bashir Ahmed

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “highly known religious”. Today it says “sufi saint”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Islamic scholar and saint (1923–2021)”. It now reads “Indian politician,Islamic scholar and saint (1923–2021)”.
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Mian Bashir Ahmed Larvi (November 1923 – 14 August 2021) was the eldest son of renowned saint Mian Nizam ud Din , the founder President of Gujjar-Jat Conference a socio political body established in 1932. He was a politician and a Caliph of Islamic Sufi order (Naqshbandi, Majadadi, Larvi) in Jammu and Kashmir . He was born in November 1923 in Pehalnar Wangath, Kangan Ganderbal Kashmir and died in August 2021 (Babanagri Wangat) at the age of 97.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “highly known religious”. Today it says “sufi saint”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Islamic scholar and saint (1923–2021)”. It now reads “Indian politician,Islamic scholar and saint (1923–2021)”. Read the current article and compare.
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highly known religious

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sufi saint

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