Tafazzal Hossain Khan (known as T. H. Khan; 21 October 1920 – 16 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi politician who served as

Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of B ...

member representing the

Mymensingh-1 Mymensingh-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2016 by Jewel Areng of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhobaura and Haluaghat upazilas. History The const ...

constituency for the

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Life and career

Khan was born on 21 October 1920 in Haluaghat Upazila of

Mymensingh district Mymensingh ( bn, ময়মনসিংহ) is a district in Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh, and is bordered on the north by Meghalaya, a state of India and the Garo Hills, on the south by Gazipur District, on the east by the districts of Ne ...

. He passed

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from Phulpur High School in Mymensingh and Intermediate from Ananda Mohan College. He completed a law degree at Dhaka University. Khan was elected to

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from

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candidate in 1979. He served as the president of Supreme Court Bar Association and the Nationalist Lawyers' Forum. Khan was married to Raushan Ara Jobaida Khanam. They had three sons and one daughter. Their eldest son Afzal H. Khan was also elected to parliament. Jobaida died in 2011 at the age of 69. Khan turned 100 in October 2020, and died from pneumonia in Dhaka on 16 January 2022, at the age of 101. He was buried at Outi, his ancestral village in Haluaghat Upazila of Mymensingh District.

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