Shah Azizur Rahman
Shah Azizur Rahman | |
|---|---|
শাহ আজিজুর রহমান | |
| 4th Mashiur Rahman (acting) | |
| Succeeded by | Ataur Rahman Khan |
| 3rd Leader of the House | |
| In office 15 April 1979 – 24 March 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Mansur Ali |
| Succeeded by | Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 November 1925 Kushtia, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 1 September 1989 (aged 63) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Political party | Nationalist Party (1978–1982) Bangladesh Muslim League (1976–1978) |
Shah Azizur Rahman (
Early life
Shah Azizur Rahman was born in
Political career
Azizur Rahman was the general secretary of the East Pakistan Muslim League from 1952 to 1958.[2] In 1962 he participated in the Pakistan National Assembly elections from Kushtia but lost.[2] He joined the National Democratic Front led by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1962. In March 1964 he joined the Awami League and was subsequently elected vice-president of the Pakistan Awami League. In 1965 he was elected to the National Assembly from Kushtia and served as the deputy leader of the opposition from 1965 to 1969. He was one of the defense lawyers in the Agartala Conspiracy Case.[2]
At the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War, Azizur Rahman supported the Pakistani state forces and denounced the Bengali nationalist struggle.[3] He led the Pakistani delegation to the United Nations in November 1971, where he would emphatically deny that the Pakistan Army's Operation Searchlight had degenerated into genocide. In 1971, following the defeat of Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War, Azizur Rahman was arrested under the collaborators act but was released in 1973 under a general amnesty by Prime Minister Sheikh Mujib.[2] In the post-war period, authorities estimated that over a million people had been killed in Bangladesh by Pakistani state forces and collaborating militias. Azizur Rahman would continue to lobby Muslim nations in the Middle East to decline diplomatic recognition to Bangladesh.
After the assassination of Sheikh Mujib, he joined the revived Muslim League in Bangladesh in 1976. He then joined the newly founded
As prime minister, Shah Azizur Rahman helped ratify the infamous
Death
Shah Aziz died in Dhaka on 1 September 1989 at the age of 63.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Former deputy prime minister Jamal Uddin Ahmad dies". Bdnews24.com. 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2015-01-04.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rahman, Shah Azizur". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ^ "The Bengalis who let us down in 1971". The Daily Observer. Dhaka. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ^ a b c Ahmed, Rumi (30 May 2011). "Ziaur Rahman: the kind of statesman we need now". bdnews24.com (Opinion). Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- ^ "Shah Azizur Rahman chosen as Bangladesh PM by President Zia-ur Rahman". India Today. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
External links
- Badrul Ahsan, Syed (19 September 2005). "Our minister remembers Ayub Khan, in Colombo". New Age. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007.
- Bangladesh Observer
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