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Abu Ishaque

Died in 2003

Abu Ishaque was born on 1 November 1926 in the village of Shirangal, near Naria, in what is now Shariatpur district. After the partition, he was a sub-inspector of police in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad until 1956, obtained his bachelor's degree in Karachi in 1960 and, after independence, joined the national intelligence service, was vice-consul at Akyab and then first secretary in Calcutta. A lexicographer, he published a two-volume dictionary of contemporary Bengali. He died in Dhaka on 16 February 2003.

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