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| '''M. Hamidullah Khan, [[Tamgha-e-Jurat|TJ]], Sitara-e-Harb, [[Bir Protik|BP]]''' ({{lang-bn|এম হামিদুল্লাহ খান}}; 11 September 1938 – 30 December 2011) was a military leader in two wars fought in South Asia: the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] and the [[Bangladesh Independence War]] in 1971. | | '''Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, [[Tamgha-e-Jurat|TJ]], [[Sitara-e-Harb]], [[Bir Protik|BP]]''' ({{lang-bn|এম হামিদুল্লাহ খান}}; 11 September 1938 – 30 December 2011) was a military leader in two wars fought in South Asia: the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] and the [[Bangladesh Independence War]] in 1971. |
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| During the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, Hamidullah was awarded [[Tamgha-i-Jurat]] Gallantry Medal for his courage and ''Sitara-e-Harb'' War Medal for his dedication in the September 1965 [[Pathankot]] infiltration. In the Bangladesh Independence War in 1971, he planned and commanded the Chilmari riverborne amphibious raid, one of the most strategically significant ground combat operation that was fought during the War of Independence of Bangladesh within the [[Mankachar]] sub~sector boundary of [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Sector 11.
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| During the war in 1971, he held three posts. As an official of the [[Government of Bangladesh|Bangladesh Government]], M. Hamidullah Khan was the Principal [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Representative of Guerilla Training at [[Chakulia]], [[Bihar]]. After participating in the Sector Commanders Conference held between July 11~17th 1971, [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] C-in-C Colonel [[M. A. G. Osmani]] transferred Hamidullah to Teldhala, [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Sector 11 HQ. During that time he received a battlefield promotion to [[Squadron Leader]]. [[Bangladesh Forces]] Sector 11 headquarters was under the command of [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander [[Lt. Col.]] [[Ziaur Rahman]], who appointed Hamidullah [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander of [[Mankachar]] Sub-Sector 1, with additional charge of independent [[Roumari]] district.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bengalrenaissance.com/bio.html|title=Biography|website=Bengal Renaissance}}</ref> On 3 November 1971, [[Sqn Ldr]] M. Hamidullah Khan was appointed [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander of Sector 11.
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| Hamidullah was the Bangladesh representative during the 34th [[UNGA]], [[United Nations General Assembly]] session in 1979 as [[Bangladesh]] [[Special Envoy]] on the question of granting recognition to the [[State of Palestine]] and the [[plenary session]] on [[UN Resolution 242|UN Resolutions 242]] and 439 on the question of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Namibia]] respectively.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hamidullah Khan passes away |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=216419 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=31 December 2011 |access-date=31 December 2011}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2018}} He held numerous public appointments and elected posts during his service to the country. Upon his death President of Bangladesh [[Zillur Rahman]] and Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]] gave M. Hamidullah Khan a [[state funeral]] with full [[military honors]].
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| ==Early life==
| | During the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, Hamidullah was awarded the [[Tamgha-i-Jurat]] Gallantry Medal for his courage and ''[[Sitara-e-Harb]]'' War Medal for his dedication in the September 1965 [[Pathankot]] infiltration. In the Bangladesh Independence War in 1971, he planned and commanded the Chilmari riverborne amphibious raid, one of the most strategically significant ground combat operation that was fought during the War of Independence of Bangladesh within the [[Mankachar]] sub~sector boundary of [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Sector 11.{{citation needed|date= December 2022}} |
| M. Hamidullah Khan was born in Medini Mondal ward, [[Lohajang Upazila|Louhajong]] sub district, [[Bikrampur]], [[Dhaka]]. He was the second of nine children, one of whom died in infancy, born to Muhammad Dabiruddin Khan and Jasimunnesa Khan. His father was a [[forest ranger]] in the Bengal and Assam Forest Department of the Imperial Forest Service. Hamidullah married Rabeya Sultana Khan, the third daughter of Mokbul Hossain Siddiqi, then East Pakistan Commissioner of Taxes and Excise, on 1 August 1965, in [[Dhaka]]. Hamidullah Khan's childhood was divided between living in [[Louhajong]], [[Assam]], [[Rangamati]] and Dhaka city. His family moved to the Mughaltully Ward of Dhaka in 1954, where he would spend his adolescence. Following independence and the [[Partition of India|creation of India and Pakistan]] in 1947, the family remained in East Pakistan, until his father's retirement in 1957. Hamidullah Khan attended primary school at Silver Jubilee Anglo-Bangla Government English School, [[Guwahati]], [[Assam]], [[British India]]. He went on to secondary school for a year at Rangamati Missionary School at Chittagong Hill Tracts, then transferred to and graduated from [[Louhajong]] A.T Institute in Dhaka Bikrampur (present-day [[Munshigonj]]). He then enrolled in [[Jagannath University|Jagannath College]], now Jagannath University, in 1954. After the completion of his senior secondary school in 1956, he studied at the same college in pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce (General). Hamidullah simultaneously enrolled in the honours program at Dhaka Textile College at Tejgaon. Hamidullah Khan entered the [[Pakistan Air Force Academy]] in July 1960, and reported to [[Risalpur]] in the 34th GD(P)(Squadron no.1) as a [[flight cadet]].
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| ==Air Force career==
| | During the war in 1971, he held three posts. As an official of the [[Government of Bangladesh|Bangladesh Government]], M. Hamidullah Khan was the Principal [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Representative of Guerilla Training at [[Chakulia]], [[Bihar]]. After participating in the Sector Commanders Conference held between July 11~17th 1971, [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] C-in-C Colonel [[M. A. G. Osmani]] transferred Hamidullah to Teldhala, [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Sector 11 HQ. During that time he received a battlefield promotion to [[Squadron Leader]]. [[Bangladesh Forces]] Sector 11 headquarters was under the command of [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander [[Lt. Col.]] [[Ziaur Rahman]], who appointed Hamidullah [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander of [[Mankachar]] Sub-Sector 1, with additional charge of independent [[Roumari]] district.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bengalrenaissance.com/bio.html|title=Biography|website=Bengal Renaissance}}</ref> On 3 November 1971, [[Sqn Ldr]] M. Hamidullah Khan was appointed [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Commander of Sector 11.{{citation needed|date= December 2022}} |
| As a career officer in the air force, Hamidullah Khan served 12 years in the [[Pakistan Air Force|PAF]] from June 1960 till 29 March 1971. He was commissioned initially in the GD(P) branch on 30 June 1962 from [[Pakistan Air Force Academy]], [[Risalpur]]. | |
| He was later transferred to Administration and Special Duties Branch ([[Provost Marshal]]). His primary field of duty was security, investigations and counter intelligence. He served in the Pakistan Air Force at bases in [[Lahore|Risalpur]], [[Chaklala|Chaklala(Rawalpindi)]], [[Sargodha]], [[Karachi]], [[Peshawar]], and finally [[Dacca]]. In September 1970, [[Flight Lieutenant]] Hamidullah Khan was posted to the Pakistan Eastern Zone as Assistant [[Provost Marshal]] P&S (Provost & Security) Unit 5 and Asst. Director of Security, Tejgaon International Airport in Dhaka.
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| After the Bangladesh war of Independence, Hamidullah Khan received induction into the [[Bangladesh Air Force]] (BAF) on 7 April 1972.
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| | Hamidullah was the Bangladeshi representative during the 34th [[UNGA]], [[United Nations General Assembly]] session in 1979 as [[Bangladesh]] [[Special Envoy]] on the question of granting recognition to the [[State of Palestine]] and the [[plenary session]] on [[UN Resolution 242|UN Resolutions 242]] and 439 on the question of [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] and [[Namibia]] respectively.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hamidullah Khan passes away |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=216419 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=31 December 2011 |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2022}} He held numerous public appointments and elected posts during his service to the country. Upon his death President of Bangladesh [[Zillur Rahman]] and Prime Minister [[Sheikh Hasina]] gave M. Hamidullah Khan a [[state funeral]] with full [[military honors]].{{Citation needed|date= February 2022}} |
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| PAF Base Chaklala, Rawalpindi: With 8 weeks of counter-intelligence and guerilla training he successfully infiltrated the Indian border from Sialkot on a night ''reconnaissance'' mission to gather photographic intel for assisting SSG commandos air drop mission over the border near Pathankot (about 12 hrs terrain hike to the air base). For his dedication and display of immense courage, he was awarded the ''Tamgha-e-Jurat'' (Star of Courage) and for participation the ''Sitara-e-Harb'' (Medal of War) awards.
| | He also authored four more books and made two documentaries on the events surrounding the war and post-independence. The Bangladesh Government named Road 23 in the town of [[Banani Model Town|Banani]], Dhaka after him.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 June 2007 |title=Khoka opens Hamidullah Khan Road |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2007/jun/19/met.html |location=Dhaka |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203034931/http://www.newagebd.com/2007/jun/19/met.html |archive-date=3 December 2022}}</ref> Along with those of 55 other fighters, his biography was included in a CD released by the Bangladesh government.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2009 |title=CD on biographies of 56 FFs released |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=118345 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> |
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| On 30 March 1971, [[Flight Lieutenant]] M. Hamidullah Khan TJ, SH, defected from the [[Pakistan Air Force]], and reported to the Bangladesh Provincial Government April 14 via [[Agartala]]. He was inducted into the Provincial Government of Bangladesh at 8 Theatre Road, Calcutta the following day. He was then posted as the Principal Representative of the Provincial Government of [[Bangladesh]] to [[Chakulia]] Guerilla Training Camp in [[Bihar]] during the period of April ~ June 1971. After he joined the [[Bangladesh Forces]] (BDF), M. Hamidullah Khan participated at the Sector Commanders Conference held between 11 July and 17 July 1971, and subsequently following the conference was posted by BDF Commander-in-chief (C-in-C) Colonel [[M.A.G Osmani]] to [[Teldhala]], [[Mankachar]], State of [[Meghalaya]], [[Bangladesh Forces|BDF]] Sector 11 Headquarters under its Commander Major [[Ziaur Rahman]], in command of the entire war effort in that sector. Zia appointed Hamidullah as commander of sub-sector 1, stationed in [[Mankachar]], [[Meghalaya]], with the additional responsibility of administration and protection of the independent [[Roumari]] area. Hamidullah would hold these positions between April, and until end of October 1971 during the war. As sub-sector commander, he commanded over 800 troops and fought 22 major encounters. In recognition of his efforts, Flight Lieutenant M. Hamidullah Khan received a [[battlefield promotion]] to squadron leader by BDF C-in-C Colonel M.A.G Osmani. His largest and most significant guerrilla operation would be the [[Chilmari Upazila|Chilmari]] Landing/Raid, on 16 and 17 October, during which Hamidullah led a crossing with 50 boats of the [[Ganges]] River by [[Kurigram]] and conducted a shock landing and attack on the Chilmari stronghold of the Pakistan Army, On 3 November 1971 Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan officially took command of BDF Sector 11 under authority of Direct Order Transfer of Command from an [[Emergency Action Message|EAM]] Emergency Action Message tele-wired from the Provincial Bangladesh Government interim headquarters at 8, Theatre Rd. Calcutta.
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| ==Post independence== | | M. Hamidullah Khan was given a [[state funeral]] with a military [[guard of honour]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sector commander Hamidullah laid to rest |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=34799 |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=UNB |date=1 January 2012 |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hamidullah laid to rest |url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-01-01&nid=45504 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |agency=UNB |date=1 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514214507/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-01-01&nid=45504 |archive-date=14 May 2014 |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref> Hamidullah Khan is survived by his spouse Rabeya Sulatna Khan and two sons, Murad Hamid Khan (Sonny) and Tariq Hamid Khan (Konny).<ref name="newagebd1">{{cite news |title=Hamidullah passes away |url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-12-30&nid=45308 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |date=30 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514112115/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-12-30&nid=45308 |archive-date=14 May 2014 |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref> |
| After the war, Hamidullah was inducted into the nascent BAF A&SD branch upon transfer from BDF Command by official government order, gazetted 7 April 1972 and was appointed the first Provost Marshal of BAF in Command of BAF Police and Ground Defense. In addition, he was assigned the security of the two airports in Dhaka, Kurmitola Air Base and Dhaka Air Base at Tejgaon. In 1973, Hamidullah received his final promotion to Wing Commander.
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| As Ground Defense Commander, Wing Commander Hamidullah Khan led a team that crushed the BAF airmen uprising and rebellion restoring order following the [[Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977)|1977 JAL Flight 472]] hijacking incident at Dhaka International Airport/Bashar Air Base, Tejgaon during Air Marshall A. G Mahmood's tenure as COS. He further secured and tightened the safety and movements in and around the entire airport. Then President Ziaur Rahman, immediately following the attempted coup, appointed Hamidullah khan as ZMLA and Director of Martial Law Communications and Control Center set up at the old parliament building (present day prime minister's office) at Tejgaon. Hamidullah initiated the transfer of DFI under the Ministry of Defense from Bailey Road to Dhaka Cantonment under the direct control of the President and rechristened as [[DGFI]].
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| He also held the positions of Chief of Air Force Security (Provost Marshal), Head of DFI Screening Committee, Director of Air Intelligence and Director of Recruiting, and Ground Defense Commander. He was also the Commanding Officer Administration Branch of BAF at Base Bashar.<ref name=":0" /> Hamidullah officially retired from BAF on 10 January 1979.
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| Hamidullah received a gallantry award for Courage on 15 December 1973. M. Hamidullah Khan wrote a three-volume book called ''71' Northern Front'' (in Bangla: ''Ekature Uttor Ronangon'') of his and other guerrilla fighters' accounts of the War of Independence, squarely concentrating on guerilla warfare at the Central Sector BDF Sector 11. Hamidullah's second book was a two-volume set about the Independence War. He also authored four more books and made two documentaries on the events surrounding the war and post-independence. The Bangladesh Government named Road 23 in the town of [[Banani Model Town|Banani]], Dhaka after him.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 June 2007 |title=Khoka opens Hamidullah Khan Road |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2007/jun/19/met.html |location=Dhaka |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203034931/http://www.newagebd.com/2007/jun/19/met.html |archive-date=3 December 2007}}</ref> Along with those of 55 other fighters, his biography was included in a CD released by the Bangladesh government.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2009 |title=CD on biographies of 56 FFs released |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=118345 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref>
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| In September 1978, Hamidullah joined the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP). During the BNP's first council in 1978, Hamidullah Khan was appointed the first International Affairs Secretary of the Central Executive Committee including the post of Executive Secretary, in the present day re-designated as Office Secretary. He remained in that post until 1989. In the party's second national council in 1993, he was again made Secretary of the BNP International Affairs Committee. In the fifth national council, Hamidullah was appointed Secretary of the Central Committee of the BNP National Executive Committee on Independence War and Veterans Affairs, which he held until his death. Hamidullah was denied a party nomination and brushed aside without notice in 1996 and 2001. M. Hamidullah Khan immediately followed into the welcoming hand of Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League but following a year later returned to BNP.
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| He was nominated four times and elected thrice in [[Jatiyo Sangshad]] elections. These elections included:
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| * [[1979 Bangladeshi general election]]: Constituency [[Dhaka-5]] ( [[Louhajong]] and [[Sreenagar Upazila|Sreenagar]] [[Upazilas of Bangladesh|Upazila's]]); service duration: 2 years, 11 months (2 February 1979 – 24 March 1982).
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| * [[1991 Bangladeshi general election]]: Constituency Munshigonj-2 ( [[Louhajong]] and [[Sirajdikhan]] [[Upazilas of Bangladesh|Upazila's]]); service duration: 4 years, 9 months (27 February 1991 – 24 December 1995).
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| * [[February 1996 Bangladeshi general election]] Constituency Munshigonj-2 ( [[Louhajong]] and [[Sirajdikhan]] [[Upazilas of Bangladesh|Upazila's]]); service duration: 18 days (12 March 1996 – 30 March 1996).
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| * [[2008 Bangladeshi general election]]: Constituency [[Dhaka-15]] ( [[Mirpur Model Thana|Mirpur]] Model Town and [[Kafrul]] Town) – Nominated.
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| He re-emerged in 2007 after a long absence from public life, since the time he resigned from BNP. He had joined the Awami League in 1996 which ended in two years short stint. He wrote five books, gave interviews, began speaking on Bangladesh social, political, and economic matters. BNP party chief and former Prime Minister [[Begum Khaleda Zia]], re-called him to active politics and nominated him for the electoral seat of Dhaka-15 (Mirpur and Kafrul) during the 9th Parliamentary General Elections, held on 29 December 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://123.49.39.5/asset/index.php?lang=en |title=Bangladesh Election Commission: Asset Database<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=15 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201412/http://123.49.39.5/asset/index.php?lang=en |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Hamidullah served in different positions in the Bangladesh government throughout his active life. He served as chairman of the [[Bangladesh Postgraduate Medical Research Centre]] between 1979 and 1982, member of the DU senate, chairman of the [[Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust]] from 1993 to 1996, Chairman of the [[BIDA]] formerly the Board of Investment, chairman of the [[Janata Bank]] between 1995 and 1996.
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| M. Hamidullah Khan was given a [[state funeral]] with a military [[guard of honour]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sector commander Hamidullah laid to rest |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=34799 |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=UNB |date=1 January 2012 |access-date=23 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hamidullah laid to rest |url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-01-01&nid=45504 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |agency=UNB |date=1 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514214507/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2012-01-01&nid=45504 |archive-date=14 May 2014 |access-date=23 December 2012}}</ref> Hamidullah Khan is survived by his spouse Rabeya Sulatna Khan and two sons, Murad Hamid Khan (Sonny) and Tariq Hamid Khan (Konny).<ref name="newagebd1">{{cite news |title=Hamidullah passes away |url=http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-12-30&nid=45308 |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |date=30 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514112115/http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/archive_details.php?date=2011-12-30&nid=45308 |archive-date=14 May 2014 |access-date=23 December 2012}}</ref>
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| * {{cite web |url=http://www.gunijan.org.bd/GjProfDetails_action.php?GjProfId=182 |script-title=bn:এম হামিদুল্লাহ্ খান |trans-title=KM Hamidullah Khan |last=Yasin |first=Ehsanul|website=[[Gunijan|Gunijan Trust]] |language=bn }} | | * {{cite web |url=http://www.gunijan.org.bd/GjProfDetails_action.php?GjProfId=182 |script-title=bn:এম হামিদুল্লাহ্ খান |trans-title=KM Hamidullah Khan |last=Yasin |first=Ehsanul|website=[[Gunijan|Gunijan Trust]] |language=bn }} |
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