Muhammad Ishaq (politician)
Muhammad Ishaq Pabnavi | |
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মোহাম্মদ ইসহাক | |
Ishaq in 2018 | |
| Ameer of Khelafat Majlis | |
| In office 22 May 2005 – 28 January 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Azizul Haque |
| Succeeded by | Jobair Ahmad Chowdhury |
| Democracy and Local Autonomy Minister of East Pakistan | |
| In office 17 September 1971 – 14 December 1971 | |
| Governor | Abdul Motaleb Malik |
| Administrator | A. A. K. Niazi |
| Preceded by | unknown |
| Succeeded by | dissolved |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1935 (age 90–91) Pabna District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Party | Khelafat Majlis |
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| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
| Personal life | |
| Education | |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
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.