[2][4] Orient Airways was founded by Mirza Ahmad Ispahani and Adamjee Haji Dawood on 23 October 1946.
[5] The company expanded into multi-dimensional business activities including jute, tea, textiles, engineering, shipping, matches and plywood.
Ahmad Ispahani personally went to meet Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and requested that his properties be denationalized.
Mujib had the law specially changed for Ahmad Ispahani and handed all his properties back to him.
When Ziaur Rahman became the president, he requested that Ahmad Ispahani become the chairman of Biman, because of his expertise in the aviation industry.