| Aminul Haque | |
| Native Name: | আমিনুল হক |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
| Constituency Mp: | Rajshahi-1 |
| Term Start: | 1991 |
| Term End: | 2006 |
| Successor: | Omor Faruk Chowdhury |
| Office1: | Posts and Telecommunications Minister |
| Term Start1: | 2001 |
| Term End1: | 2006 |
| Birth Date: | 1942/1943 |
| Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
| Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Aminul Haque (1942/1943 – 21 April 2019) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who served as the Bangladesh minister of post and telecommunications.[1] [2] [3] A member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he represented Rajshahi-1 as a member of parliament from 1991 to 2006.[4]
Haque was a barrister. He was elected a member of parliament from the Rajshahi-1 constituency in the elections held in 1991, 1996 and 2001.[5] He served as the post and telecommunications minister during 2001–2006.[6]
In 2005, a BNP MP from Rajshahi-3 constituency, Abu Hena, alleged that Haque was among several party members who were affiliated with Bangla Bhai, military commander of a local Islamist organization.[7] [8] [9] In November, Hena was expelled from the party for the statements over the rise of Islamic militancy in the country.[10] Bangla Bhai, before his execution in January 2007, disclosed Haque's name as one of the patrons of Islamist militancy.[11] In July 2007, Haque was sentenced in absentia to 31 years and six months' imprisonment for aiding and abetting the militants of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in extorting and torturing people in Bagmara Upazila in 2004.[12] In May 2009, Frontline World, a US-based news service, reported he had received bribes from the German company, Siemens in 2004.[13]
In July 2009, Haque surrendered and was sent to jail.[14]
In January 2018, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina named Haque as one of the 50 Bangladeshis whose names were included in the Paradise Papers.[15]
Haque died on 21 April 2019 at the age of 76 by lung cancer.[16]