Английская Википедия:Farhat Banu

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy datesШаблон:Infobox officeholder Farhat Banu was a Member of the Dhaka Nawab family and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly in British India. Her uncle was the Nawab of Dhaka, Sir Khwaja Salimullah.

Career

Farhat Banu was a Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, the largest legislature in the British Raj.[1] She was also a member of the select committee and one 21 women members in that committee.[2] She introduced The Orphanages and Widows Home Act inn 1944 in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.[3] She gave a copy of the bill to Kumudini Basu, Secretary of the Nari Raksha Samiti.[4]

Personal life

Farhat Banu was married to Khwaja Shahabuddin of the Dhaka Nawab family in 1912. Khwaja Shahabuddin was the Governor of Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan and served as a Minister in the Cabinet of Pakistan. Khwaja Shahabuddin died on 9 February 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan.[5] Her father was Nawabzada Khwaja Atiqullah was also a member of the Dhaka Nawab family and her uncle, Sir Khwaja Salimullah, was the Nawab of Dhaka. Her son was Lieutenant General Khwaja Wasiuddin.[1][6] Her another son was Khwaja Zakiuddin, a banker in East Pakistan. Zakiuddin was married to Begum Binoo Zakiuddin, they had two daughters Almas Zakiuddin and Yasmeen Murshed and one son Zahed Zakiuddin.[7] Her husband's niece, Hashmat Ara Begum, was married to Khondoker Fazle Sobhan, one of their son is, noted economist Rehman Sobhan.[8]

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