Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al-Shams (East Pakistan)
Searching ''DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN'' and ''The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star'', the largest English-language newspapers of Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively, returns hundreds of hits for "Al-Shams", a few of the most relevant being: http://www.dawn.com/news/612841/smokers-corner-violent-ghosts, http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=235181, http://www.thedailystar.net/justice-is-it-only-to-close-wounds-or-more-55181, and http://www.thedailystar.net/top-news/jamaat-the-core-76296. A couple books that make more than a passing mention of Al-Shams are https://books.google.com/books?id=nYppZ_dEjdIC&pg=PA79 published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and https://books.google.com/books?id=ppkpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 from an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. Al-Shams also earns an (albeit brief) encyclopedia article here: http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Al-Shams. Although none of these is as significant as a book-length history of the Al-Shams organization, keep in mind that  instructs us that, "If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources should be cited to establish notability." I don't have full-text HighBeam Research access, but a search there for "Al-Shams Pakistan" returns 74 results, mostly in South Asian newspapers such as ''Dhaka Courier'', ''DNA'', ''Financial Post'', ''Hindustan Times'', ''The Independent'', ''Mint'', ''The Nation'', and ''The New Nation''. The article may need improvement, but the topic easily meets  and 
— User:Worldbruce, 17:11, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ORG||WP:ORG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)