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{{Short description|Bangladeshi journalist and politician}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1939|5|25}}
| birth_place = [[Mymensingh]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2005|11|10|1939|5|25}}
| death_place = Canada
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| other_names =
| occupation = Journalism
| known_for = Journalist, Former Minister, High Commissioner
|father=[[Abdul Jabbar Khan]]
|relatives={{unbulleted list|[[Sadek Khan]] (brother)|[[Selima Rahman]] (sister)|[[Abu Zafar Obaidullah]] (brother)|[[Rashed Khan Menon]] (brother)|[[Fazlur Rahman Khan]] (brother-in-law)}}
| awards = [[Ekushey Padak]] (2004)<ref>{{cite news |title=10 awarded Ekushey Padak |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/02/17/d40217012222.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=UNB |date=17 February 2022}}</ref>
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'''A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan''' (25 May 1939 – 10 November 2005) was a Bangladeshi journalist and government minister. He founded the weekly newspaper ''[[Holiday (newspaper)|Holiday]]'' and the daily newspaper ''[[New Age (Bangladesh)|New Age]]''.<ref name="newagebd.com">{{cite news |last=Adil |first=Nehal |date=10 November 2013 |title=Remembering Mintu bhai |url=http://newagebd.com/special.php?spid=37 |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112071208/http://newagebd.com/special.php?spid=37 |archive-date=2013-11-12}}</ref> He served in [[Ziaur Rahman]]'s Cabinet, first as Minister of Land Administration and Land Reform from December 1977 to June 1978, and then as [[Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources|Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources]] from July 1978 to October 1978.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rahman |first1=Syedu |year=2010 |title=Historical dictionary of Bangladesh |edition=4th |location=Lanham, MD |publisher=Scarecrow Press |pages=314–315 |isbn=978-0-8108-6766-6}}</ref>

Md. Shaheduzzaman had remarked him as one of the best political writers in South-East Asia.<ref name="thedailystar1">{{cite news |author=Md. Shaheduzzaman |date=12 November 2009 |title=Remembering A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=113655 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref>

He was president of the Jatiya Press Club and the Dhaka Club.

== Early life and family ==

Enayetullah Khan was born in [[Mymensingh]], [[Bengal Presidency]] on 25 May 1939, the third son of the late Justice [[Abdul Jabbar Khan]], a former speaker of the Pakistan National Assembly.<ref>{{cite news |title=Enayetullahs 2nd anniversary of death today |url=http://international.ucla.edu/institute/article/81765 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=10 November 2007 |via=UCLA International Institute}}</ref> Enayetullah Khan was nicknamed as Mintu.

His siblings include journalist and columnist Sadek Khan, poet [[Abu Zafar Obaidullah]], former minister [[Selima Rahman]], political leader [[Rashed Khan Menon]] MP, Architect Sultan M. Khan, Alan Khan, a photographer in Sydney, and the publisher of ''[[New Age (Bangladesh)|New Age]]'', Shahidullah Khan Badal.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halim |first=Anwar Parvez |date=19 March 2005 |title=All in the family |url=http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |newspaper=Probe News Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404070230/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |archive-date=2010-04-04}}</ref> In 1962, he married Masuda Khan Leena, the sister of renowned structural engineer [[Fazlur Rahman Khan]].<ref name=jib>{{cite book|language=bn|title=জীবনী গ্রন্থমালা|page=12|volume=19|year=1990|publisher=[[Bangla Academy]]}}</ref>

== Politics and education ==

Enayetullah Khan was a student of Anand Mohan College. He served as the general secretary of Students' Union of his college. Then he got admitted in [[University of Dhaka]], completed his graduation and attained master's degree in philosophy. While studying in [[University of Dhaka]], he was involved in student politics on behalf of Students' Union and served as the vice-president of Shahidullah Hall section.<ref name="na25Aug2019">{{cite news |title=A Testament of Time |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/82516/a-testament-of-time |work=New Age |date=25 August 2022}}</ref>

He actively participated in the [[Bengali Language Movement]] in 1952. Later on he worked in favour of [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} He joined [[Farakka Long March]] Committee with [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]].<ref name="dt10Nov2013" />

== Life and career ==

Enayetullah Khan started his journalism career in 1959 as a cub reporter with the then ''Pakistan Observer''.<ref name="na25Aug2019" /> Later, he founded the ''[[Weekly Holiday]]'' in August 1965 and took over as its editor in 1966. ''Weekly Holiday'' was critical to the [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]] regime in [[Pakistan]] and supported the Mass Upsurge in 1969.<ref name="thedailystar1"/>

Later, after Independence war he was nominated as a member of the search committee to find out the information regarding the deceased intellectuals during [[Bangladesh Independence War]].<ref name="dt10Nov2013">{{cite news |title=Enayetullah Khan's 8th death anniversary today |url=https://issuu.com/dhakatribune/docs/131109205318-c481405e29fc4515a8e0c59435818eb1 |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=10 November 2013 |page=4}}</ref>

He was the owner editor of ''Weekly Holiday'', the magazine that played a strong role against the anarchy of [[Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] and published many reports that included full description of atrocities done by the [[Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini]] from 1972 to 1975.<ref name="newagebd1">{{cite news |last=Zaman |first=Roushan |date=9 November 2012 |title=An icon of courageous journalism |url=http://www.newagebd.com/special.php?spid=10 |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118140410/http://www.newagebd.com/special.php?spid=10 |archive-date=2012-11-18 |access-date=30 October 2022}}</ref> He was later detained and ''[[Weekly Holiday]]'' was banned by [[Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]].<ref name="newagebd.com"/>

He also served as the coordinator of [[Committee for Civil Liberties and Legal Aid]], the organisation that helped the victims of Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini. When [[Bangladesh famine of 1974|the famine of 1974]] started in Bangladesh he formed Famine Resistance Committee and helped the hungry and destitute.

He served as the editor of the ''Bangladesh Times'' from 1975 to 1977.<ref name="thedailystar1"/>

Later, he served as a Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in the cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFpQAQAAMAAJ&q=A.Z.M.+Enayetullah+Khan+minister|title=Bangladesh|date=1977|language=en}}</ref> Then he was commissioned as the ambassador of Bangladesh<ref name="newagebd.com"/> to China, North Korea, Cambodia, and [[Myanmar]].<ref name="dt10Nov2013" /> He also worked as the President of National Press Club<ref name="newagebd1"/> and Dhaka Club.

He was in the 1976 Farakka March Committee led by Moulana Bhasani and the Committee Against Communalism in 1981.

In 2003, he started the publication of the daily newspaper ''[[New Age (Bangladesh)|New Age]]''.<ref name="ds10Nov2013">{{cite news |title=Enayetullah Khan's death anniversary today |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/enayetullah-khans-death-anniversary-today/ |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=10 November 2022}}</ref>

== Death ==
[[File:Grave of A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka 29 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Grave of A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan at Banani Graveyard]]
Khan died in Toronto, Canada on 10 November 2005 at the age of 66. He had been suffering from cancer of the pancreas.<ref name="ds10Nov2013" />

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