and became an activist for the Muslim League. He was a member of the central working committee of the League until 1947. After the partition of India in 1947, he opted for East Bengal and settled in Dhaka. He was the President of Muslim League (East Pakistan) until he retired from politics in 1960. Akram Khan was also involved in the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. He was also a founding member of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body formed in 1962. Death Khan died on 18 August 1968. He was buried at the Ahl-i-Hadith Bangshal mosque at Old Dhaka. Literary works Samasya O Samadhan Mostafa Charit Amparar Tafseer Tafser-a-Quran Muslim Banglar Samajik Itihas Awards Independence Day Award (1981) References External links Akram Khan: Journalist and litterateur; The New Nation 1868 births 1968 deaths Pakistani centenarians Men centenarians People from Dhaka Bengali politicians Pakistan Movement activists from Bengal Pakistan Muslim League politicians Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam Bengali language movement Recipients of the Independence Day Award Krishak Sramik Party politicians Honorary Fellows of Bangla Academy Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 Members of the Pakistan Philosophical Congress Founders of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind 20th-century Bengalis 19th-century Bengalis Bengali activists People from North 24 Parganas district Journalists from West Bengal Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan