Muhammad Ishaq (politician)
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| honorific_prefix = Mawlana
| name = Muhammad Ishaq
| honorific_suffix = Pabnavi
| native_name = মোহাম্মদ ইসহাক
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Maulana Ishaq In a joint press conference by 20-party alliance.jpg
| caption = Ishaq in 2018
| image_size = 200px
| birth_place = Pabna District, Bengal Presidency, British India
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1935}}
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| nationality = Bangladeshi
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| office = Ameer of Khelafat Majlis
| termstart = 22 May 2005
| termend = 28 January 2023
| predecessor = Azizul Haque
| successor = Jobair Ahmad Chowdhury
| office1 = Democracy and Local Autonomy Minister of East Pakistan
| governor1 = Abdul Motaleb Malik
| 2blankname1 = Administrator
| 2namedata1 = A. A. K. Niazi
| termstart1 = 17 September 1971
| termend1 = 14 December 1971
| predecessor1 = unknown
| succeeded1 = dissolved
| alma_mater = {{plainlist|*Haji Ahmad Ali Madrasa
| country = Bangladesh
| party = Khelafat Majlis
| otherparty = {{plainlist|*Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis
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| religion = Islam
| denomination = Sunni
| jurisprudence = Hanafi
| movement = Deobandi
| education = {{plainlist|*Kamil
- MA (Islamic studies)}}
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Muhammad Ishaq (born 1935) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician. He is an advisor of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and the central advisor and former Ameer of the Khelafat Majlis.
He began his political career by joining the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and later became the president of the Pabna district branch of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Ishaq served as the publicity secretary of the Pabna district branch of the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee and was the minister of democracy and local autonomy in the last East Pakistan government.
After the independence of Bangladesh, Muhammad Ishaq was imprisoned by the new government for collaborating with Pakistan, but was released in 1973 under a general amnesty. In the 1980s, he became a member of the Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan and the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis. Following a split in the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, a faction led by Ishaq formed another political party with a similar name in 2005.
Biography
Muhammad Ishaq was born in 1935 in the village of Madhupur in Pabna District, located in the northern part of the Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Sujanagar Upazila, Bangladesh).{{cite news|title=সংক্ষিপ্ত পরিচিতি|lang=bn|date=18 September 1971|page=6|newspaper=The Daily Ittefaq}} He began his political career by joining the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. During his student life, he served as the publicity secretary of the Pabna district branch of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. In 1956, he became the vice president of East Pakistan Jamiat-e-Talaba-e-Arabia, an Islamic political platform, and the following year, he passed the Kamil examination from Sirajganj Haji Ahmad Ali Alia Madrasa. Later, in 1962, he completed his post-graduation in Islamic Studies from the University of Dhaka and underwent training in agriculture and civil defense. Muhammad Ishaq served as the principal of Pabna Kamil Alia Madrasa. He was appointed assistant secretary of the East Provincial Branch of the Pakistan Madrasa Teachers Association. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, he served as president of the Pabna district branch of the Nizam-e-Islam Party and as publicity secretary of the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee for the district. In September during the war, he was made a minister in the Malik ministry. As minister, he was responsible for the department of democracy and local autonomy in East Pakistan.{{cite book|title=বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র|lang=bn|volume=VII|page=540|editor=Hasan Hafizur Rahman|year=2009|orig-year=1982|publisher=Hakkani Publishers|url=https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/পাতা:বাংলাদেশের_স্বাধীনতা_যুদ্ধ_দলিলপত্র_(সপ্তম_খণ্ড).pdf/৫৭৪|isbn=}}{{cite news|title=মন্ত্রীদের দফতরের চূড়ান্ত তালিকা|lang=bn|page=6|date=12 October 1971|newspaper=The Daily Ittefaq}} In the 1971 East Pakistan by-elections, he was elected unopposed to the constituency of Pabna-12 in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.{{cite news|title=প্রাদেশিক পরিষদ এ পর্যন্ত ৩৫ জন বিনা প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতায় নির্বাচিত|lang=bn|page=1, 6|date=31 October 1971|newspaper=The Daily Ittefaq}} After the independence of Bangladesh, on 24 December 1971, the government of Bangladesh arrested him on charges of collaborating with Pakistan during the war.{{cite news|url=https://bangla.thedailystar.net/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8-%E0%A6%90%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%AA-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AD%E0%A7%A7-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%8F-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%B9-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%95|title=২৪ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৭১: সাবেক গভর্নর ডা. এ এম মালিকসহ মন্ত্রিসভার সদস্যরা আটক|lang=bn|first=Ahmad|last=Ishtaiq|date=24 December 2021|newspaper=The Daily Star|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250422222029/https://bangla.thedailystar.net/...|archive-date=22 April 2025|url-status=live}} On 30 November 1973, he was released following a general amnesty granted by the government.{{cite book|title=একাত্তরের ঘাতক ও দালালরা কে কোথায়|lang=bn|page=21|year=1992|orig-year=1987|publisher=Muktijuddho Chetona Bikash Kendro}} Later, he became a central committee member of the Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan, founded in 1981 by Islamic scholar Muhammadullah Hafezzi. Two years after Hafezzi's death, in 1989, a faction of the party joined the newly formed Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis under the leadership of Azizul Haque, where Ishaq served as secretary-general and nayeeb-e-ameer.{{cite book|title=শ্বেতপত্র: বাংলাদেশে মৌলবাদী সাম্প্রদায়িক সন্ত্রাসের ২০০০ দিন|trans-title=White Paper: 2000 Days of Fundamentalist and Communal Violence in Bangladesh|lang=bn|year=February 2022|publisher=People's Commission to Investigate Fundamentalist and Sectarian Terrorism|volume=I|place=Dhaka|pages=163–164}} In 2005, the party experienced a split, and a faction led by Ishaq formed another political party under the name Khelafat Majlis. He became the Ameer of the new party.{{cite news|url=https://www.ourislam24.com/2017/03/07/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B0|title=প্রার্থীদের জনপ্রিয়তা জরিপ করছে খেলাফত মজলিস|lang=bn|date=7 March 2017|access-date=22 April 2025|work=OurIslam24.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308142712/http://ourislam24.com/2017/03/07/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B0/|archive-date=8 March 2017|url-status=live}} In 2020, he became a member of the advisory council of the Islamic organization Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh.{{cite web|url=https://www.banglatribune.com/politics/652821/...|title=ভাঙছে হেফাজতে ইসলাম, নতুন কমিটিও আসছে|lang=bn|first=Salman Tareq|last=Shakil|date=16 November 2020|access-date=23 April 2025|website=Bangla Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512192613/...|archive-date=12 May 2023|url-status=live}} He also retained the same post in 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.dhakapost.com/politics/219505|title=হেফাজতের ২০২ সদস্যের কমিটি ঘোষণা, উপদেষ্টাই ৫৪|lang=bn|date=31 August 2023|access-date=22 April 2025|website=Dhaka Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201184656/...|archive-date=1 December 2023|url-status=live}} After serving as Ameer of Khelafat Majlish until 2023, Ishaq retired and became the central advisor of the party.{{cite news|url=https://insaf24.net/news/28/01/2023/151028|title=খেলাফত মজলিসের নব নির্বাচিত আমীর মাওলানা যোবায়ের আহমদ চৌধুরী; মহাসচিব ড. আহমদ আবদুল কাদের|lang=bn|date=28 January 2023|access-date=22 April 2025|work=Insaf.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250422201711/https://insaf24.net/news/28/01/2023/151028|archive-date=22 April 2025|url-status=live}}
References
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Category:Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh advisors
Category:Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis politicians
Category:Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan politicians
Category:Nizam-e-Islam Party politicians
Category:Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam politicians
Category:Provincial ministers of East Pakistan
Category:People of the Bangladesh Liberation War
Category:People from Sujanagar Upazila