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Ziaur Rahman Khan

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Ziaur Rahman Khan
Member of Parliament
for Dhaka-13
In office
27 February 1991 – 29 October 2006
Preceded byKhan Mohammad Israfil
Succeeded byJahangir Kabir Nanak
Personal details
Born11 September 1945
Dacca, Bengal, British India
Died24 April 2021(2021-04-24) (aged 75)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cause of deathCOVID-19
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party
Parent(s)Ataur Rahman Khan
Akramunnessa Khan

Ziaur Rahman Khan (11 September 1945 – 24 April 2022) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, lawyer and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-13 constituency.[1][2]

Early life

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Khan was born in Old Dhaka of Dhaka district. His father Ataur Rahman Khan was the Chief Minister of East Pakistan in 1956 and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1984.[citation needed] He studied at St Edmund's School at Shillong and then at Faujdarhat Cadet College [1]

Career

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Barrister Ziaur Rahman Khan was a senior lawyer in the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was elected to parliament from at that time Dhaka-13 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 15 February 1996, 12 June 1996 and 2001.[3][4]

Ziaur Rahman Khan was defeated from Dhaka-20 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the ninth parliamentary elections of 2008. He did not contest in the general elections of 2018.[5][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "BNP chief's adviser Barrister Ziaur Rahman dies from Covid-19". The Daily Star. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. ^ "BNP chairperson's adviser Ziaur Rahman Khan dies of Covid". The Business Standard. 25 April 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Electoral Area Result Statistics". Amarmp. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Dhaka-13 - Constituency detail of Bangladesh General Election 2018". The Daily Star. 25 November 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  5. ^ "জিয়াউর রহমান খান, আসন নং: ১৯৩, ঢাকা-২০". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 25 April 2021.