Akram Khan (politician)

Akram Khan (politician)

Maulana Akram Khan was a politician in British India, afterwards Pakistan.

He was initially active in the khilafat movement. Later, along with Khwaja Nazimuddin, he led the conservative faction of the Muslim League government of Bengal in the 1940s.

After Partition of India, he left Calcutta for Dhaka where he kept on editing The Daily Azad, the leading Bengali daily of that time.


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