Moudud Ahmed
| Moudud Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Bangladesh | |
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In office September 1989 – December 1990 |
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| President | Hossain Muhammad Ershad |
| Preceded by | A K M Nurul Islam |
| Succeeded by | Shahabuddin Ahmed |
| Prime Minister of Bangladesh | |
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In office 27 March 1988 – 12 August 1989 |
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| President | Hossain Mohammad Ershad |
| Preceded by | Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury |
| Succeeded by | Kazi Zafar Ahmed |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 May 1940 Noakhali, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh) |
| Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party (1978–1984),(1996-present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Jatiya Party (1984–1996) |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |
| Religion | Islam |
Moudud Ahmed (born 24 May 1940) is a Bangladeshi barrister, statesman and politician. He has held numerous high political offices in the Government of Bangladesh, including Deputy Prime Minister (1976-1978 and 1987-1988), Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1988-1989), Vice President of Bangladesh (1989-1990) and Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs (2001-2006). Ahmed is a standing committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
He was elected as a Member of Parliament six times from Noakhali.
Ahmed was born in 1940 in the Bengal Presidency during the British Raj. His father was a Sufi Islamic scholar and imam in Paribagh, Dacca. Ahmed obtained his BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Dacca. He was called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn in London in 1966.
While in the UK, Ahmed was part of a growing intellectual movement among East Pakistani students in envisioning an independent Bangladesh. After returning to Dacca, he joined the legal team of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman during the Agartala Conspiracy Case trial in 1968. He accompanied the Bengali delegation led by Sheikh Mujib to the Rawalpindi Round Table Conference with Field Marshal Ayub Khan in 1969. Ahmed witnessed many important developments in the run up to Bangladesh's independence. He joined the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in Calcutta during the 1971 Liberation War. He worked in its External Publicity Division. Ahmed addressed many humanitarian rallies for Bengali genocide victims. He once stirred an entire rally in London holding up a Daily Mirror article titled Birth of a Nation and crying out "we are alive, but we are not yet free".
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