Abbas Ali Khan

Abbas Ali Khan (19143 October 1999) was an educator and politician who served as the Emir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from 1979 to 1992. He also served as Education minister of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He was elected as a Member of Parliament of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan. He briefly served as the personal secretary of Fazlul Haque, the Prime Minister of Bengal.

Biography Abbas Ali Khan was born in 1914 in Joypurhat Thana, Bogra District, Bengal Presidency, British India. In 1925, he passed high matriculation examination from Hooghly Madrasah. 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. After the independence of Bangladesh, 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 was established and he became senior nayeeb-e-ameer of the party. In 1991, Ghulam Azam 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.