K.M. Aminul Islam

K.M. Aminul Islam Khan (কে.এম. আমিনুল ইসলাম খান) was a former Jatiya Party (Ershad) member of parliament for Munshiganj-3. He was the paternal uncle of M. Hamidullah Khan TJ, SH, BP, Who was BDF Commander, Sector 11, 1971 War of Independence and public official.

Career
Aminul Islam Khan was a career Air Force officer in the Pakistan Air Force until as a Wing Commander. He was jailed in India during the war of independence in 1971 due to espionage at the border area. Khan's course mate AVM A. K. Khandker Chief of Air staff(BAF) post independence, secured his coursemate's release from the captive of Indian authorities and enrolled him to Ministry of Defense on deputation from Banglaresh Air Force. A.K. Khandekar promoted Khan to Air Vice-Marshal skipping subordinate ranks, and secured him an appointment as the third director of the Directorate of Forces Intelligence under the Ministry of Defense, which was later christened as Directorate General of Forces Intelligence headed by a director general. Aminul Islam Khan was relieved of duty and dismissed from service after the 1977 hijack of Japan Airlines Flight 472 and the uprising to topple the government that ensued, which was unsuccessful.

Islam entered politics during the martial law of the military dictatorship of H. M. Ershad, as a government minister for a short stint of one and a half years. Khan was elected to parliament from Munshiganj-3 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986. He soon migrated to America with his family through the US Diversity Visa Program.