Faruk Khan

Faruk Khan (born 18 September 1951) is a Bangladeshi politician and former Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism of Bangladesh Government.[1] Khan is a Parliament member of Bangladesh Government and former Commerce & Industry Secretary of the Awami League.[2]

Faruk Khan
Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
In office
2008? – ?
Personal details
Born (1951-09-18) 18 September 1951
Dhaka, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyAwami League
Spouse(s)Nilufar Faruk Khan
ChildrenQantara K Khan
Qareena K Khan

Early life

Khan was born on September 18, 1951 in Dhaka to his parents Serajul Karim Khan and mother Khaleda Karim Khan. He holds a Masters in Defense Studies from Defense Services and Staff College in Mirpur.[3]He was commissioned from 44 PMA long course in the corps of infantry on 26 March 1971 . He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel on 15 may 1995 from Bangladesh Army.[4][5]

Political career

Khan was parliament member and the Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism of Bangladesh government. He was elected from the seat of Gopalganj-1[6] with 99% votes the third time in a row at December 29, 2008's National Election. Khan pledged that the reduction of prices of basic foods and commodities are a priority in his term.[7]

Personal life

Khan is married to Nilufer Faruk Khan, a social worker. Together they have two daughters Qantara K Khan and Qareena K Khan.[8]

gollark: Oh, and he's partly behind OpenAI, which while kind of annoying in some ways is responsible for GPT-2 and GPT-3, which are *really cool*.
gollark: Tons of institutions and people are overly focused on maintaining the status quo, but Elon at least has interesting ideas and sometimes makes them work.
gollark: Hyperloop isn't exactly very great, but at least he's actually *doing things* which are interesting and could be useful?
gollark: According to Wikipedia he's been with Tesla from a year after they started and ran it since 2008, so I feel like he deserves much of the credit for that.
gollark: It's ridiculous to complain that he doesn't know much about rocketry and stuff himself and (THE HORROR) hired competent people who do, and managed to improve the state of space travel a lot.

See also
  • 2008 Bangladesh general election

References
  1. "Ministry of Commerce- - বাণিজ্য মন্ত্রণালয়-". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. Central Committee of Bangladesh Awami League Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Faruk Khan dot com". Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  4. http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com, Hafez Ahmed @. "BD a secular country with steady economic dev: Faruk". print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  5. "Lt. Col. Muhammad Faruk Khan (Retd.), MP, Hon'ble Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism visits the Embassy and is received by the Ambassador – Embassy of Bangladesh Tokyo". bdembjp.mofa.gov.bd. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  6. "Bangladesh Election Commission: Asset Database". Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  7. Personal Information of Candidates of National Election
  8. "Cabinet Ministers". Probe. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by
G M Quader		 Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
2012-present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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