A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan

Khan started his journalism career in 1959 as a cub reporter with the then Pakistan Observer.^[10] Later, he founded the Weekly Holiday in August 1965 and took over as its editor in 1966. Weekly Holiday was critical to the Ayub Khan regime in Pakistan and supported the Mass Upsurge in 1969.^[6]

Later, after Independence war Khan was nominated as a member of the search committee to find out the information regarding the deceased intellectuals during Bangladesh Independence War.^[11]

Khan was the owner editor of Weekly Holiday, the magazine that played a strong role against the anarchy of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and published many reports that included full description of atrocities done by the Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini from 1972 to 1975.^[12] He was later detained and Weekly Holiday was banned by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.^[4]

Khan also served as the coordinator of Committee for Civil Liberties and Legal Aid, the organisation that helped the victims of Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini. When the famine of 1974 started in Bangladesh he formed Famine Resistance Committee and helped the hungry and destitute.

Khan served as the editor of the Bangladesh Times from 1975 to 1977.^[6]

Later, Khan served as minister of petroleum and mineral resources in the cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman.^[13] Then he was commissioned as the ambassador of Bangladesh^[4] to China, North Korea, Cambodia, and Myanmar.^[11] He also worked as the President of National Press Club^[12] and Dhaka Club.

Khan was in the 1976 Farakka March Committee led by Moulana Bhasani and the Committee Against Communalism in 1981.

Khan served as the minister of land administration and then the minister of petroleum and mineral resources in the then-government of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1978 and as the ambassador to China (1984–1987) and Myanmar (1987–1989).^[14]

In 2003, Khan started the publication of the daily newspaper New Age.^[15]

Khan died in Toronto, Canada on 10 November 2005 at the age of 66. He had been suffering from cancer of the pancreas.^[15]