Claim: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh(housed in Nimtali) is a non political organization renamed in 1972, Ahmed Hasan Dani played an important role in its founding.
Evidence: The society is housed in Nimtali, walking distance from the Curzon Hall of Dhaka University, locality of Old Dhaka. The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Bureau, Government of Bangladesh. The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh was established as the Asiatic Society of East Pakistan in Dhaka in 1952 by numbers of Muslim leaders, and renamed in 1972. Ahmed Hasan Dani, a noted Muslim historian and archaeologist of Pakistan played an important role in founding this society.