Ziaur Rahman Khan

Ziaur Rahman Khan (11 September 1945 – 24 April 2021) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, lawyer and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-13 constituency.^[1][2]

Ziaur Rahman Khan
Member of Parliament for Dhaka-13
In office 27 February 1991 – 29 October 2006
Preceded by	Khan Mohammad Israfil
Succeeded by	Jahangir Kabir Nanak
Personal details
Born	11 September 1945 Dacca, Bengal, British India
Died	24 April 2021(2021-04-24) (aged 75) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cause of death	COVID-19
Political party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Parent(s)	Ataur Rahman Khan Akramunnessa Khan

Early life

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

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]