A. K. Faezul Huq

Abul Kalam Faezul Huq ( – 19 July 2007)

Career In 1969, Faezul Huq joined Notre Dame College, Dhaka, as a lecturer in political science. The assembly was not convened, however. The Bangladesh Liberation War broke out in March 1971. President Yahya Khan banned the Awami League, but in August announced that 88 members of the assembly from the defunct party, including Faezul Huq, would be allowed to retain their seats in their individual capacities. Bangladesh won its independence in December without the assembly being convened.

In 1979, he joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). President Abdus Sattar added him to his cabinet as a state minister during a reshuffle on 13 February 1982. Sattar's government fell the next month in the 1982 Bangladeshi coup d'état.

Faezul Huq returned to the Awami League, and to parliament in the June 1996 general election for Barisal Cum Pirojpur. He stood for re-election in the 2001 Bangladeshi general election, losing to the BNP candidate.

Shortly after the 2001 election, the new government opened corruption cases against a number of individuals who had served in the outgoing government, including Faezul Huq.

Faezul Huq also worked as a columnist. and had three daughters and two sons.

The Gregorian Association created a scholarship in his memory at St. Gregory's High School.