Aasha Mehreen Amin is a Bangladeshi journalist and writer. She is currently joint editor at ''The Daily Star''.

Biography

Aasha Mehreen Amin was born in

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to a

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family. Her father, Anwarul Amin Makhon, was the second-eldest son of former

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, and the former general manager of BCCI Bangladesh, known for opening

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's first branch abroad (in

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). Her mother, Razia Khan Amin, was an

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-winning writer, poet, and professor at the

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, and her maternal grandfather,

Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan (M. T. Khan; March 1889 – 19 August 1963) was the Speaker of Pakistan's Constituent Assembly from 1948 to 1954 and National Assembly of Pakistan between 1962 and 1963. Early life Khan was born in March 1889 to the Benga ...

, was a speaker of the parliament of Pakistan. She studied in

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, Massachusetts, United States of America, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1991. Her grandfather,

was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the eighth prime minister of Pakistan from 7 December to 20 December 1971.

Career

She started as a feature writer at ''The Daily Star'', the largest circulated English language newspaper in Bangladesh, in June 1991. She received a journalism fellowship from the

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where she studied environmental and investigative journalism in 1993. She was the editor of the weekly ''Star'' published by ''The Daily Star'', a position she held from 1996 to 2015. She publishes her own satirical column in the magazine called ''Postscript'' and a current events column ''No Strings Attached'' in the newspaper. She was the deputy editor of the Editorial and Op-ed section of ''The Daily Star'' and is now the Joint Editor of ''The Daily Star''.

Personal life

Aasha Mehreen Amin is married and has one child.

References

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