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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{Use Bangladeshi English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Quazi Kamal
|native_name = কাজী কামাল
|native_name_lang = bn
|constituency_MP = [[Magura-2]]
|parliament = Bangladesh
|term_start  = March 1994
|term_end    = 30 March 1996
|predecessor = [[Mohammad Asaduzzaman (politician)|Mohammad Asaduzzaman]]
|successor = [[Biren Sikder]]
|term_start1 = 28 October 2001
|term_end1 = 27 October 2006
|successor1 = Biren Sikder
|party       = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
}}
'''Qazi Saleemul Huq''' (known as '''Quazi Kamal''') is a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician and a former [[Jatiya Sangsad]] member representing the [[Magura-2]] constituency during 1994–1996 and 2001–2006.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lawyer says Khaleda will challenge graft conviction in High Court|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/02/08/lawyer-says-khaleda-will-challenge-graft-conviction-in-high-court|access-date=9 February 2018|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref> He is the founder of GQ Group of Industries, a manufacturing based organization in Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/businessman-ex-mp-kamal-leaves-bnp-protesting-shady-figures-in-key-posts|title=Businessman, ex-MP Kamal leaves BNP protesting 'shady figures' in key posts|work=bdnews24.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-12}}</ref>
Kamal has been imprisoned since  February 2018 for a 10-year sentence in the [[Zia Charitable Trust corruption case]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/02/20/khaleda-committed-state-financial-crime-by-embezzling-zia-orphanage-trust-fund-court|title=Khaleda committed state financial crime by embezzling Zia Orphanage Trust fund: Court|last=Biswas|first=Prokash|work=bdnews24.com|access-date=2020-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220005637/https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/02/20/khaleda-committed-state-financial-crime-by-embezzling-zia-orphanage-trust-fund-court|archive-date=2018-02-20}}</ref>
==Career==
Kamal was elected in parliament from Magura-2 in the 1994 by-election as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-5333|title=Party men demand punishment of ex-BNP MP in Magura|date=2007-09-25|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> In 2001 he was elected again from the same constituency. He was appointed as the president of [[Magura District]] unit of the party.<ref>{{cite news|title=Magura's Quazi Kamal also quits BNP committee|url=http://www.daily-sun.com/post/158020/Magura%E2%80%99s-Quazi-Kamal-also-quits-BNP-committee|access-date=9 February 2018|work=The Daily Sun|language=en}}</ref>
In January 2008, Kamal was acquitted from a case of abetting former state minister [[Salahuddin Ahmed (Cox's Bazar politician)|Salahuddin Ahmed]] in extorting money.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-01-11|title=Ex-state minister Salahuddin jailed for 7 years|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-18769|access-date=2021-06-13|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>
On 10 August 2016, Kamal resigned from the executive committee of BNP over the inclusion of [[Nitai Roy Chowdhury]] in the committee.<ref>{{cite news|title=Quazi Kamal quits BNP executive committee|url=http://www.clickittefaq.com/quazi-kamal-quits-bnp-executive-committee/|access-date=9 February 2018|work=clickittefaq.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Now Magura's Quazi Kamal quits BNP committee|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/Now-Magura's-Quazi-Kamal-quits-BNP-committee|access-date=2021-06-13|work=Prothom Alo|language=en}}</ref>
Kamal, along with the former Prime Minister [[Khaleda Zia]], [[Tarique Rahman]], Mominur Rahman, Kamal Uddin Siddique and  Sharfuddin Ahmed, were sentenced to imprisonment in the [[Zia Charitable Trust corruption case]] on 8 February 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/02/08/world/142343/khaleda-zia-jailed-five-years-corruption-case|access-date=9 February 2018|work=Daily News|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/khaleda-zia-jailed-years-corruption-case-180208083811505.html|access-date=9 February 2018|work=Al Jazeera}}</ref>
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