Aboul Khan

Aboul Bashar Khan is an American politician of Bangladeshi descent. He is currently serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Rockingham District 20 since 2016. He previously represented the same district from 2012 to 2014.

Early life and education

Khan was born on March 1, 1960, to a Bengali Muslim family of Khans in Bhandaria, Firozpur, then a part of the Bakerganj district of East Pakistan. He is the eldest of the two sons and two daughters of former defense secretary Mahbub Uddin Khan Kanchan and his wife Shahanara Begum.
Khan passed the matriculation examination from the Muslim Government High School, Dhaka, in 1976. After completing his higher secondary education from Notre Dame College in 1978, he was admitted to the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. After studying there for three years, he moved to the United States on a student visa on January 10, 1981, and settled there.