page_title: Jatiya Press Club
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Jatiya Press Club / History
caption_attribution_description: English: H S Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan visited the Press Club in 1958. Provincial Chief Minister Ataur Rahman Khan along with his cabinet colleagues and Tofazzal Hussain Manik Mia, Editor of the Daily Ittefaq and members of the Press Club are also seen in the photo. The photograph was taken on the western side of the old Press Club building.
context_page_description: Jatiya Press Club is the professional club for journalists of Bangladesh located in the capital Dhaka. The current president is Saiful Alam. The general secretary is Farida Yasmin.
context_section_description: The Jatiya Press Club was founded in 1954 as the East Pakistan Press Club. It was formed to be run by an elected committee guided by its rules and regulations. The Government of East Pakistan rented out a building at 18 Topkhana Road at a monthly rent of Tk 100 to be used as the press club headquarters. The building before 1947 was a residential house of Dhaka University and was once residence to physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.
  The first life member of the club was N. M. Khan who was chief secretary of the provincial government. Mujibur Rahman Khan was the first president of the club. On 25 March Pakistan army started Operation Searchlight and shelled the club, the structure was completely destroyed. After the Independence of Bangladesh it was named the National Press club. In 1977 the building was leased to the club permanently and the government of Bangladesh covered the expense of a new building. In 1995 the Club's logo and emblem were selected.
caption: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan visited the Press Club in 1958[4]
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