Faruk Khan

Faruk Khan (born 18 September 1951) is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism of Bangladesh Government.

[1] Khan is a former parliament member five consecutive times from Gopalganj-1 and a former Commerce and Industry Secretary of the Awami League.

[7] Khan was arrested in October 2024 from his home in Dhaka Cantonment following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government.

Farooq Khan was in that battalion and somehow managed not to be taken as a Pakistani prisoner of war by identifying himself as a Bengali officer.

When the country became independent on December 16, Farooq was sent to the office of the Bangladesh High Commissioner, Hossain Ali, in Kolkata.