AKM Aminul Haque (officer)

AKM Aminul Haque is a major general of the Bangladesh Army and director general of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party. He is the chairman of the Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank.

Haque was the Senior Directing Staff -SDS (Army)-2 of the National Defence College. Prior to joining the National Defence College, he served as director of IT, Directorate at Bangladesh Army Headquarters and director of Trust Bank Limited.

Early life and education
Haque was born in Bhedarganj Upazila, Shariatpur District. He completed his SSC and HSC from Cumilla Cadet College. He completed his undergraduate from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He completed two masters from the National University of Bangladesh and Bangladesh University of Professionals respectively. He received his PhD degree from the University of Dhaka in November 2022.

Career
Haque was commissioned in Bangladesh Army on 22 December 1989 with 21st Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) Long Course.

In September 2011, Lieutenant Colonel Haque was the additional director of National Security Intelligence when he led an operation arrest six individuals in Dhaka in connection with the leak of question papers for medical and dental school exams.

Haque served as defence adviser at the Bangladesh High Commission in London.

In January 2020, Haque came back to Bangladesh and join Senior Directing Staff -SDS (Army)-2 of the National Defence College in Mirpur Cantonment. Later he served as director of IT at Army Headquarter until he got promoted to major general. On 17 January 2023, he was appointed the Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party. He went to the shrine of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to pay tribute after his promotion.

Personal life
Haque's brother AKM Enamul Haque Shamim is an Awami League member of parliament, and the deputy minister of Sheikh Hasina cabinet. There was an attempted assassination of his brother, Enamul Haque Shamim, in June 2014 while he was serving as director of the National Security Intelligence. His father engineer Abul Hashem is a veteran of Bangladesh Liberation War and former employee of Bangladesh Water Development Board. His mother Ratnagarva Begum Ashrafunnesa also actively participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War with her husband.