Selima Rahman

{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Selima Rahman | native_name = সেলি রহমান | native_name_lang = bn | image = Selima Rahman Briefs Journalists at Election Building Dhaka 2018-12-20 (PID-0041008) (cropped).jpg | caption = Rahman in 2018 | office = Minister of State for Cultural Affairs | term_start = 10 October 2001 | term_end = 28 October 2006 | prime_minister = Khaleda Zia | successor = C. M. Shafi Sami | predecessor = Rokia Afzal Rahman

| office1 = Member of Parliament | constituency1 = Reserved Women's Seat-27 | term_start1 = 10 October 2001 | term_end1 = 28 October 2006 | predecessor1 = Panna Kaiser<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of 7th Parliament Members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp-bangla/7th%20Parliament%20.pdf |access-date=2020-10-01 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |language=bn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924064449/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp-bangla/7th%20Parliament%20.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> | successor1 = Rubi Rahman <ref>{{Cite web |title=List of 9th Parliament Members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla |access-date=2020-10-01 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |language=bn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409131839/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla |archive-date=9 April 2014}}</ref>

| party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party | father = Abdul Jabbar Khan | relatives = {{unbulleted list|Sadek Khan (brother)|A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan (brother)|Abu Zafar Obaidullah (brother)|Rashed Khan Menon (brother)}} }}

'''Selima Rahman''' is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician. She served as a minister of state at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the government of Bangladesh and Member of Parliament from 2001 to 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gulfnews.com/uae/representation-of-women-reduced-to-half-1.427101 |title=Representation of women reduced to half |publisher=Gulf News |date=14 October 2001 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref>

==Background== Rahman is the daughter of justice Abdul Jabbar Khan, a former speaker of the Pakistan National Assembly. Her siblings include journalist and columnist Sadek Khan, poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah, journalist and government minister A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan, government minister Rashed Khan Menon, architect Sultan M. Khan, photographer Allen Khan and the publisher of ''New Age'', Shahidullah Khan Badal.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halim |first=Anwar Parvez |accessdate=15 October 2016 |date=19 March 2005 |title=All in the family |url=http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |newspaper=Probe News Magazine |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404070230/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |archive-date=4 April 2010}}</ref>

==Career== Rahman served as the joint secretary general and vice-chairman of the BNP.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/selima-rahman-picked-up-5818 |title=Selima Rahman picked up |publisher=The Daily Star |date=7 January 2014 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-30527 |title=Govt out to tarnish Zia family's image |publisher=The Daily Star |date=3 April 2008 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref>

Rahman was arrested several times during her political career — in April 2012 under section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-231443 |title=Sylhet violence leaves 2 dead |publisher=The Daily Star |date=24 April 2012 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref> in December 2013,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/3-bnp-leaders-freed-after-detention-4662 |title=3 BNP leaders freed after detention |publisher=The Daily Star |date=30 December 2013 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref> in January 2014 for the Ramna Police Station arson case,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/bnp-leader-selima-released-7193 |title=BNP leader Selima released |publisher=The Daily Star |date=17 January 2014 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref> in August 2015 for assaulting police<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/arrest-warrant-against-bnps-selima-rahman-132664 |title=Arrest warrant against BNP's Selima Rahman |publisher=The Daily Star |date=26 August 2015 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref> and in September 2016 for an arson attack on a bus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/arrest-order-bnps-selima-rahman-66-others-1271146 |title=Arrest order for BNP's Selima Rahman, 66 others |publisher=The Daily Star |date=17 August 2016 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/pallabi-arson-arrest-warrant-selima-1287910 |title=Pallabi arson: Arrest warrant for Selima, 13 others |publisher=The Daily Star |date=22 September 2016 |accessdate=15 October 2016}}</ref>

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