After partition, the group made significant investments into tea-plantations in Sylhet.
During this period the group was also the largest jute exporter in the Indian Sub-continent.
He continued to support different charitable institutions and organizations engaged in social welfare activities.
[4] Mirza Mehdy Ispahani also played a political role in Bangladesh.
[citation needed] He died on 20 January 2004 in Bumrungrad Hospital, Bangkok from cardiac arrest, leaving behind his wife, five sons, three daughters.