Abbas Ali Khan was a member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan and education minister of

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

Biography

Abbas Ali Khan was born in 1914 in Joypurhat Thana,

Bogra District Bogra District, officially Bogura District (), is a district in the northern part of Bangladesh, in Rajshahi Division. Bogra is an industrial city where many small and mid-sized companies are sited. Bogra was a part of the Pundravardhana terri ...

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, British India. In 1925, he passed high matriculation examination from Hooghly Madrasah. Ten years after examination, he acquired B.A degree from

Carmichael College Carmichael College, Rangpur () is a public higher education institution in Bangladesh. Established in 1916 by the then Magistrate Collector of Rangpur, J.N. Gupta and was named after Lord Baron Carmichael. Currently, the college offers education ...

. Then he became a civil servant and worked for

Indian government The Government of India (ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of 36 states and union territor ...

from 1936 to 1947. He also became secretary of

A.K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengali lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest prime minister of Bengal during the British Raj. He is well-known to present ...

, first prime minister of Bengal. In 1955, eight years after the

independence of Pakistan The Pakistan Movement was a religiopolitical and social movement that emerged in the early 20th century as part of a campaign that advocated the creation of an Islamic state in parts of what was then British Raj. It was rooted in the two-nation th ...

, he became a member of

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP), is a Pakistani Islamism, Islamist political party. It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. JIP is a "vanguard party", whose members are intended to be leade ...

and later he became ameer of its branch of

Rajshahi Division Rajshahi Division () is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of and a population at the 2022 Census of 20,353,119. Rajshahi Division consists of 8 districts, 70 upazilas (the next lower administrat ...

. In 1962, Khan became member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan representing Dinajpur-Bogra. In 1971, he was made deputy ameer of the East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami, provincial branch of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. During the

Bangladesh Liberation War The Bangladesh Liberation War (, ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, was an War, armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalism, Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan, which res ...

, he was appointed as education minister in the

Malik ministry The Malik ministry was an interim cabinet formed in East Pakistan, Pakistan's former eastern province, during the Bangladesh War of Independence. This cabinet, characterized as a civilian form of military rule, was established on 17 September 1971 ...

, the last cabinet of East Pakistan. After the

independence of Bangladesh The independence of Bangladesh was Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence, declared from Pakistan on 26 March 1971, which is now celebrated as Independence Day (Bangladesh), Independence Day. The Bangladesh Liberation War started on 26 March ...

, on 24 December 1971, he was arrested by the government for collaborating with Pakistan during the war. On 30 November 1973, the government announced a general amnesty for detained cabinet members, and he was released. In 1979,

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh. The origin of the party can be traced back to the original faction founded by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi in 1941. The predecessor of Jamaat which is known as Jam ...

was established and he became senior nayeeb-e-ameer of the party. He also became acting ameer at the time. In 1991,

Ghulam Azam Ghulam Azam (7 November 192223 October 2014) was Bangladeshi politician and writer who served as Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He was vocal in gaining support for Operation Searchlight, a crackdown o ...

was elected as ameer and Khan's responsibility as acting ameer ended. But then government arrested him in 1992 and Khan became acting ameer again for 16 months. Khan died in Dhaka on 3 October 1999 of liver cirrhosis.

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* 1914 births 1999 deaths Ameers of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Bengali Sufi saints Provincial ministers of East Pakistan Pakistani MNAs 1962–1965 Jamaat-e-Islami East Pakistan politicians Pakistani schoolteachers 20th-century Indian civil servants People from Joypurhat District Carmichael College alumni {{Bangladesh-stub