Shamsul Islam Khan

{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}

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{{similar names|Shamsul Islam (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Shamsul Islam Khan

|native_name = শামসুল ইসলাম খান

|native_name_lang = bn

|office = Minister of Industries

|term_start = 20 March 1991

|term_end = January 1993

|primeminister =Khaleda Zia

|predecessor = Sultan Mahmud

|successor = A. M. Zahiruddin Khan

|constituency_MP1 = Manikganj-4

|term_start1 = 27 October 2001

|term_end1 = 22 January 2006

|successor1 = Moinul Islam Khan

|death_date = {{death date and given age|2006|01|22|df=y|76}}

|death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh

|party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party

|children = Moinul Islam Khan

}}

Shamsul Islam Khan (known as Naya Miah; died on 22 January 2006){{Cite news |title=BNP MP Shamsul Islam Khan passes away|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/bnp-mp-shamsul-islam-khan-passes-away1|access-date=7 September 2020|work=bdnews24.com|date=21 January 2006}} was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Manikganj-4 constituency and a former minister of industries at the first Khaleda Zia cabinet.{{cite news|title=Parliament adjourned for 25 minutes at death of Shamsul Islam Khan|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2006/01/22/parliament-adjourned-for-25-minutes-at-death-of-shamsul-islam-khan|access-date=19 February 2018|work=bdnews24.com}}

Career

Khan served as the president of Abahani Limited Dhaka from 1978 to 1982. He was elected to Parliament in 1991 from Manikganj-4 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. From 1991 to 1996 he served as the Minister of Industries in the First Khaleda Zia Cabinet. He was elected in 2001 to parliament from Manikganj-4.{{cite news|title=Shamsul Islam passes away|url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/01/23/d60123012016.htm|access-date=19 February 2018|work=The Daily Star|agency=UNB|date=23 January 2006}} He was elected four times from Manikganj-4 constituency.{{cite news|title=Death anniversary|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-219368|access-date=19 February 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=22 January 2012|language=en}}

Personal life

Khan died on 22 January 2006 in LabAid Cardiac Hospital, Dhaka.

Khan's son, Moinul Islam Khan, was made a member of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's advisory council on 7 August 2016.{{cite news|title=BNP names members of its leaders’ families in new committee|url=http://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=27581|access-date=19 February 2018|work=The Daily Observer|language=en}} He had two daughters and one son.

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