Ataur Rahman Khan (BNP politician)

Ataur Rahman Khan (Bengali: আতাউর রহমান খাঁন) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Kishoreganj-3.

[1] In 1988, on a tour with senior leaders of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, he visited Afghanistan and met with Osama bin Laden.

[2][1] They had flown to Pakistan where they were hosted by Qari Saifullah Akhtar and were driven by Abdur Rahman Shahi, a Bangladeshi mujahadeen, to Afghanistan.

[1] Khan was elected to parliament from Kishoreganj-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991.

[3] After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, his son Waliur Rahman Khan was appointed Khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque replacing Ruhul Amin.