Ahmed Hasan Dani, a noted Muslim historian and archaeologist of Pakistan played an important role in founding this society.

[3] Some of scholars of the Asiatic Society moved to Dhaka, capital of East Bengal, after the Partition of India.

[3] Asiatic Society of Pakistan was established on 3 January 1952 by Ahmad Hasan Dani, Abu Mohammed Habibullah, Abdul Halim, Abdul Hamid, Itrat Husain Zuberi, J. S. Turner, Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan, Muhammad Shahidullah, Sayed Moazzem Hossain, Serajul Huq, Sheikh Sharafuddin, Syed Muhammed Taifoor, and W. H. A.

[3] In September 2013, the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh published a junior version of Banglapedia.

[4] The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh in November 2020 cancelled the grant of two professors at the University of Dhaka after it found evidence of plagiarism in their work.