Shamsul Huq

Shamsul Huq was a Pakistani Bengali politician who led a parliamentary committee in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan to advocate for the recognition of the Bengali language during the Language movement of the 1950s. He was also the first and third general secretary of the Awami League, which played a key role in Bengali nationalist movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Political career

The Awami League was formed on 23 June 1949 and Shamsul Huq became its first general secretary, and Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani became its first president. He wrote a pamphlet on this occasion titled "Main Demands." The pamphlet reads

Personal life

Shamsul Huq was married to Afia Khatun, whose childhood friend Begum Jahanara was the wife of Yar Mohammad Khan who was a founder of the Awami League and the founder of The Daily Ittefaq. Afia Khatun lived and worked in the United States later in her life. She authored a book – Bengali Language Movement and the Creation of Bangladesh – with her husband Anwar S. Dil.