Mohammad Abdul Haque

Mohammad Abdul Haque (1 January 1918 – 6 April 1996) was a Bangladeshi bureaucrat, author and government minister.

Early life and education Haque was born on 1 January 1918 in the village of Kamalpur in Zakiganj, Sylhet District in the then Assam Province, British India to Mohammad Sabzan Ali and Sakina Khatun. He graduated from Murari Chand College in 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Career Haque passed the Assam Public Service Commission examination in 1943 and was appointed to the police with the rank of deputy superintendent. He opted to join the Pakistan Police Service after the Partition of India in 1947. He served as the district superintendent of police of Dhaka District, Mymensingh District, Noakhali District, and Rangpur District. In 1959, he was awarded the President Police Medal. In 1960, he was made the additional inspector general of police. He was awarded the Tamgha-i-Pakistan in 1963. From 1965 to 1969, he served as the chairman of the Road Transport Corporation. He received the Sitara-i-Khidmat award from the government of Pakistan in 1969.

Per a 2020 interview in Elle magazine, Haque's granddaughter is an Australian-Canadian writer, poet, artist, and cultural critic, Fariha Róisín. Some have dispusted this claim.

Haque died on 6 April 1996 in Dhaka. He was buried in Banani graveyard and M. A. Haque Foundation was established in his honour.