- Khwaja Hassan Askari
Infobox_Monarch | name =Nawab Khwaja Hassan Askari Bahadur
title = titular Nawab of Dhaka
caption =Nawab Khwaja Hassan Askari Bahadur
reign =1958 - 1984
predecessor =Nawab Khwaja Habibullah
successor =Nawab Khwaja Habibullah Askari
royal house =Dhaka Nawab Family
father =Nawab Khwaja Habibullah
mother =
Birth = 1920
place of birth =Ahsan Manzil ,Dhaka
death =1984
place of death =Karachi ,Pakistan |Nawab Khwaja Hassan AskariBahadur (1920-1984) was the titularNawab of Dhaka and a Pakistani politcian. Hassan Askari, as he was commonly known, was the son of the lastNawab of Dhaka ,Khwaja Habibullah , and grandson of his famous grandfather, SirKhwaja Salimullah who was the fourth Nawab of Dhaka.Hassan Askari joined the
Indian Army and fought during thesecond world war in theBurma sector. Apart from being head of the estate Hassan Askari was also engaged in politics, a tradition of the eminent political dynasty of the subcontinent that he hails from. He was the head of theConvention Muslim League inEast Pakistan . Hassan Askari was also elected to theNational Assembly of Pakistan on the Basic Democracies system during the rule of PresidentAyub Khan .After the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 Hassan Askari left
Dhaka and settled inPakistan where he died in 1984.See also
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Dhaka Nawab Family
*Convention Muslim League
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