Abdul Jabbar Khan

Abdul Jabbar Khan

Justice Abdul Jabbar Khan (1902 - 23 April 1984) was the 6th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He was Preceded by Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry.

He was born at Baherchar village in Barisal District, Bengal in 1902. He obtained BA (Hons) and MA Degree in Arabic from Dhaka University in 1924 and 1925 respectively, and BL degree in 1927. Jabbar Khan joined the Bengal Civil Service (Judicial) in 1929 and served in the capacity of subordinate judge, additional district judge and district judge till 1956 when he was appointed as justice of the Dhaka High Court.

On his retirement from service in 1962, Jabbar Khan joined public politics as an activist of the then party in power, Pakistan Muslim League, and was made president of the East Pakistan Convention Muslim League in 1964. He was elected a member of the Pakistan National Assembly from Barisal under the basic democracies system in 1965, and was elected Speaker of the National Assembly (10 June 1965), a position he held till the promulgation of martial law in the country on 25 March 1969. A great philanthropist Jabbar Khan established a number of educational and various social and welfare institutions. He died in Dhaka on 23 April, 1984.

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years=12 June, 196525 March, 1969
before=Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry
after=Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

See also

* Speaker of National Assembly
* National Assembly of Pakistan
* Politics of Pakistan

External links

* [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/K_0162.htm Banglapedia: Profile of Justice Abdul Jabbar Khan]


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