Tafazzal Hossain Khan (known as T. H. Khan; 21 October 1920 – 16 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as

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member representing the

Mymensingh-1 Mymensingh-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mahmudul Haque Saeam. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Haluaghat Upazila and Dhobaura Upazila. History The constitue ...

constituency for the

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Life and career

Khan was born on 21 October 1920 in

Haluaghat Upazila Haluaghat () is an upazila of Mymensingh District in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Geography Haluaghat is located at . It has 69,725 households and a total area of 357.61 km2. There is a border checkpoint on the Bangladesh-India border at Halu ...

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. He passed

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from Phulpur High School in Mymensingh and Intermediate from

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. He completed a law degree at

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. Khan was elected to

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from

as a

candidate in 1979. He served as the president of Supreme Court Bar Association and the Nationalist Lawyers' Forum. Khan was married to Raushan Ara Jobaida Khanam. They had three sons and one daughter. Their eldest son Afzal H. Khan was also elected to parliament. Jobaida died in 2011 at the age of 69. Khan

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in October 2020, and died from pneumonia in Dhaka on 16 January 2022, at the age of 101. He was buried at Outi, his ancestral village in

of Mymensingh District.

References

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