Muhammad Ishaq (politician)
Muhammad Ishaq (born 1935) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician. He is an advisor of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and the central advisor and former Ameer of the Khelafat Majlis. He began his political career by joining the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and later became the president of the Pabna district branch of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Ishaq served as the publicity secretary of the Pabna district branch of the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee and was the minister of democracy and local autonomy in the Malik ministry, last East Pakistan government. After the independence of Bangladesh, Muhammad Ishaq was imprisoned by the new government for collaborating with Pakistan, but was released in 1973 under a general amnesty. In the 1980s, he became a member of the Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan and the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis. Following a split in the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, a faction led by Ishaq formed Khelafat Majlis, another ...
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