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Abu Sharaf Hizbul Qader Sadique (Bengali: আবু শরফ হিজবুল কাদের সাদেক; 30 April 1934 – 9 September 2007) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician, who was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-6 constituency, and a former Education Minister of Bangladesh.

[1][2][3] Sadique was born on 30 April 1934 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Barenga in Keshabpur, Jessore district.

His younger sister, Begum Rahat, was the wife of politician Anwarul Hossain Khan Chowdhury.

He then moved to the United Kingdom where he studied economics and political science at the Queens' College of the University of Cambridge in 1959.

[3] His wife, Ismat Ara Sadique, was a state minister of Sheikh Hasina's government.