Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aqeel Najam Hashmi
I can't read Urdu in order to determine whether adequate sourcing exists to get him over  #2 or not (where the condition is the sourcing, and not the role in and of itself.) But to comment on the nominator's reasoning, our notability standards are ''not'' affected by the subject's own primary language or the language of the sourcing — if he has enough Urdu-language sourcing to clear NPOL and GNG, then he clears NPOL and GNG, and Wikipedia does ''not'' deprecate politicians as less notable just because they serve in countries where the primary language is not English. For one thing, even if English isn't Pakistan's ''primary'' language there ''are'' still English speakers living in Pakistan — and for another, people living ''outside'' of Pakistan might very well need to access information about Pakistani politicians too. Language is not relevant to our notability criteria — if notability and sourceability had to have a specifically anglophone angle to it, we wouldn't be able to keep articles about most topics in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, continental Europe or the Canadian province of Quebec. And then we wouldn't be fulfilling our mandate. So notability is not contingent on whether the topic operates inside the anglosphere or not — if it can be properly sourced as existing in the world, then it's established and we don't care about the language aspects
— User:Bearcat, 18:46, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)