Anwara Khatun
Anwara Khatun () was a Bengali politician and member of provincial assembly. Early  life 
Khatun was born in 1925 in Mirpur, Dacca, Bengal Presidency. She was married off when she was six years old. She completed a bachelor's degree in law and another in technology after which she completed her master's degree in art. Career 
Khatun was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946. She had hosted Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy at her house when he came to Dhaka in 1948. She was invited to join the Shorbodolio Rashtrabhasha Shangram Parishad by Kazi Golam Mahbub. She was an activist of the Bengali language movement. She spoke in the assembly against the death of students protesting for making Bengali a state language of Pakistan in police action. She was expelled from the Muslim League. She attended the conference in Rose Garden which led to the creation of Awami League. Khatun was re-elected to the East Bengal Provincial Assembly in 1954 as a candidate of the United Front. Khatun led the Awami League in 1966 when the male leadership party was imprisoned. Personal life 
Khatun's husband, Ali Amzad Khan, was a founder of the Awami League. Death 
Khatun died in 1988. References 

1925 births
1988 deaths
Politicians from Dhaka
Awami League politicians
20th-century Bangladeshi women politicians
Bengal MLAs 1946–1947
East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954
East Pakistan MLAs 1954–1958