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Abul Kalam Azad

Politician

Abul Kalam Azad is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Abul Kalam Azad · ابو الکلام آزاد · আবুল কালাম আজাদ				[sources]
Alias	ابو الکلام آزاد · আবুল কালাম আজাদ				[sources]
Birth date	1939-03-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Bakshiganj Upazila				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Bangladesh				[sources]
Country	Bangladesh				[sources]
Citizenship	Bangladesh				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Political association	Bangladesh Awami League				[sources]
Website	www.parliament.gov.bd				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q23542545				[sources]
Position	Jatiyo Sangshad (member, 2009-2014) · Jatiyo Sangshad (member, 2014-) · Member of the Parliament of Bangladesh (2009-) · Minister of Information and Broadcasting (2009-2012)				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

member of parliament of the Jatiya Sangsad and former information minister of Bangladesh

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Information and Broadcasting	2009-01-06	2012-09-13

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,411

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,936

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,710

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,304

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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