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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| office1 = Minister of Women and Children Affairs
| term_start1 = 10 October 2001
| term_end1 = 14 June 2006
| primeminister1 = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| predecessor1 = Zinnatunnessa Talukdar
| successor1 = [[Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury]]
| constituency_MP2 = [[Dinajpur-3]]
| term_start2 = 23 June 1996
| term_end2 = 15 July 2001
| predecessor2 = [[M. Abdur Rahim]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 5th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>
| successor2 = Herself<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bdaffairs.com/members-of-8th-parliament-of-bangladesh/|title=Member's of 8th Parliament of Bangladesh - Bangladesh Affairs|publisher=|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>
| term_start3 = 10 October 2001
| term_end3 = 28 October 2006
| primeminister3 = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| predecessor3 = Herself
| successor3 = [[Iqbalur Rahim]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 9th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>
| constituency_MP4 = Women's Seat-1
| term_start4 = 20 March 1991
| term_end4 = 30 March 1996
| primeminister4 = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| successor4 = Srimati Bharati Nandi (Sarkar)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-7th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 7th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1939|8|11}}
| birth_place = [[Noakhali]], [[East Bengal]], [[Dominion of Pakistan]]
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| alma_mater = [[Kumudini College]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|6|14|1939|8|11|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]
| occupation = Politician
| party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
| relatives = [[Khaleda Zia]] (sister) [[Ziaur Rahman]] (brother-in-law) [[Tarique Rahman]] (nephew) [[Arafat Rahman]] (nephew) [[Sayeed Iskander]] (brother) [[Shahrin Islam Tuhin]] (nephew) Shamim Iskander (brother) Shelina Islam (sister)
}}

'''Begum Khurshida Jahan Haq''' (11 August 1939 – 14 June 2006<ref name=Obit>{{cite news |url=http://dev-bd.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=36307&cid=2 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130712061406/http://dev-bd.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=36307&cid=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 July 2013|title=Khurshid Jahan dies at CMH, 3rd Lead |work=BDNews24 |date=14 June 2006 |access-date=7 June 2013}}</ref>) (nicknamed 'Chocolate Apa')<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ponssbnp.blogspot.com/2011/01/begum-khaleda-zia.html|title=Bangladesh Nationalist Party: Begum Khaleda Zia|last=Kibria|first=Fowajul |date=22 January 2011|website=Bangladesh Nationalist Party|access-date=9 February 2018}}</ref> was the Minister of Women's and Children's Affairs of [[Bangladesh]] from 2001 to 2006, serving under her sister, Prime Minister [[Khaleda Zia]].<ref name=Obit/> During her term in office, she worked to curb [[human trafficking]] of women and children in [[Bangladesh]], as well as to provide programs and services to rehabilitate former victims of [[human trafficking]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smc.org.ph/administrator/uploads/pdf/1362016155.pdf|title=Bangladesh|publisher=Scalabrini Migration Center|access-date=7 June 2013}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Khurshid Jahan Haq was born on 11 August 1939 in Balaburi, in the [[Dinajpur District, Bangladesh|Dinajpur District]] of the [[Bengal Presidency]]. She belonged to a [[Bengali Muslim]] family with origins in [[Fulgazi Upazila|Fulgazi]], [[Feni District]]. She was the daughter of tea-businessman Iskandar Ali Majumder, who was in turn the son of Salamat Ali Majumdar, who was the son of Azgar Ali Majumdar, who was the son of Nahar Muhammad Khan, who was the son of Murad Khan, a 16th-century Middle Eastern immigrant.<ref name=nojor>{{Cite news |url=https://www.jugantor.com/politics/15594/একনজরে-খালেদা-জিয়া |script-title=bn:একনজরে খালেদা জিয়া |work=Jugantor |date=8 February 2018 |language=bn |access-date=28 July 2019}}</ref><ref name=tofa>{{cite book|title=Bāṅmaẏa Bāṅgāli|language=bn|author=Z. A. Tofayell|year=1991|publisher=Pān̐cagām̐o Prakāśanī|pages=5–6}}</ref> Her mother, [[Taiyaba Majumder]], was from Chandbari (now in [[Uttar Dinajpur District]]).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://m.dailyinqilab.com/article/59471/খালেদা-জিয়ার-মায়ের-নবম-মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী-পালিত |script-title=bn:খালেদা জিয়ার মায়ের নবম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী পালিত |newspaper=The Daily Inqilab |language=bn |access-date=7 August 2019 |date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=nojor/>

After matriculation from the local schools, she attended [[Kumudini College]] where she received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in 1958.<ref name=Obit/> During her college years, she was active in student government and served as Secretary of the Students' Union in 1956–57.<ref name=Obit/>

==Career==
Jahan served as a [[Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|vice-chairmen]] of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]], and in 1991 was named as a Member of [[Jatiyo Sangshad|Parliament]] (MP) in the reserved seat for women.<ref name=Obit/> She was later twice re-elected as [[Member of parliament|MP]] from the Dinajpur-3 constituency, in [[June 1996 Bangladeshi general election|1996]] and [[2001 Bangladeshi general election|2001]]. She was given the position of Minister of Women's and Children's Affairs on 10 October 2001,<ref name=Obit/> and held the position until her death in 2006.

==References==
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[[Category:Women and Children Affairs ministers of Bangladesh]]
[[Category:People from Dinajpur District, Bangladesh]]
[[Category:People from Fulgazi Upazila]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi people of Middle Eastern descent]]
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