AKM Yusuf
Bangladeshi politician
Abul Kalam Muhammad Yusuf was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, hadith expert, translator, author, farmer organizer, and politician.
He served as chairman of the Bangladesh Farmers Welfare Association and as Naib-e-Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. The International Crimes Tribunal indicted him for alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The prosecution at the tribunal charged him with 13 counts. He died in a hospital in February 2014 while receiving treatment in prison custody.
Early life
AKM Yusuf was born in 1926 in Rajair in Sarankhola Thana, Khulna District, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bagerhat District, Bangladesh). Five years after independence of Pakistan, in 1952, he obtained a Title degree from Government Madrasah-e-Alia. In the same year, he joined the Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP). After completing his education, Yusuf began his professional career as an Islamic teacher while continuing his political activities. In 1957, he became the Ameer of the Khulna divisional branch of the JIP. The following year, he became the principal of Khulna Alia Madrasah.
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