Aminul Haque (Attorney General)

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Aminul Haque (4 April 1931 – 13 July 1995) was a Bangladeshi lawyer who served as the 7th Attorney General of Bangladesh from 18 December 1990 to 13 July 1995. He was appointed by President Shahabuddin Ahmed. Born in Noakhali, then part of the Bengal Presidency under British India, he died on 13 July 1995 at the age of 64. He was married to Farida Akhter, a faculty member at Jagannath University. Aminul Haque was the eldest brother of Sergeant Zahurul Haq, who was involved in the Agartala Conspiracy Case and was killed by the Pakistan military in 1969. He was a founding member of Ain-O-Salish Kendra, a civil rights and legal aid organization in Bangladesh.