In 1892, Panni assisted the poet
Naimuddin in translating the
Fatawa-e-Alamgiri into four volumes in Bengali, with his father's patronage. At the start of the 20th century, Panni ordered the digging of a canal, known as Katakhali, in order to aid communication in
Tangail. Panni in 1909 aided Abu Ahmad Ghuznavi Khan, the Zamindar of Delduar, in repairing the
Atia Mosque, which was founded by his ancestor, Sayeed Khan Panni. Panni helped his brother-in-law
Nawab of Dhaka Khwaja Salimullah organise the
Muslim Education Conference in
Karatia in 1913. He founded two schools in Karatia after the conference:
Hafez Mahmud Ali Khan High School, named after his father, and
Rokeya Aliyah Madrasah, named after his wife. He served as the head of the
Mymensingh District Khilafat movement committee and the unit of All India Congress, serving as vice-president of the
Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. He was jailed for his role in the
Khilafat movement in December 1921. Panni founded
Saadat College in July 1926, named after his grandfather Saadat Ali Khan Panni, which was one of the country's first five university colleges and the first college in rural Bengal. He was a philanthropist who spent 20 percent of his own income on charity work. As a landlord, he was known to have been fair to his
ryots/tenants and waived rent in case of natural disasters such as famine or flood. Panni also established a
Sharia department in his land, which was engaged by 700 Islamic scholars. Panni died in 1936. ==References==