Shafik Rehman
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| Native name | শফিক রেহমান |
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Shafik-ur-Rahman 11 November 1934 Bogra, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Taleya Rehman |
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Shafik Rehman (born 11 November 1934) is a Bangladeshi journalist, political analyst, and writer. He is credited for introducing Valentine's Day in Bangladesh.
He has worked to gather support in favour of Bangladesh in England with Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971. Rehman founded the weekly Jaijaidin in 1984 which was critical to General Hussain Muhammad Ershad, a military leader who assumed power through a military coup in 1982. He was forced to leave the country in 1986 after the Ershad government suspended the declaration of Jaijaidin and was not allowed to return Bangladesh till 1991. Rehman was a director of Spectrum Radio in England.
Rehman has been serving as the editor of magazine Mouchake Dhil from 2009. Rehman was arrested on April 16, 2016, on the charge of “plotting to abduct and kill” Bangladesh Prime Minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
Rehman was born as Shafik-ur-Rahman on November 11, 1934, in Bogra. His father Sayeed-ur-Rahman was a professor of Philosophy in the University of Dhaka who taught Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as well.
Rehman studied in the Saint Gregory's School of the capital's Old Dhaka area from where he passed his matriculation in 1949. After the matriculation, he joined Dhaka College and passed intermediate examinations in 1951. He then completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Economics in 1956 from University of Dhaka. He went to England to complete his higher studies and joined Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from where he passed the exams for Chartered Accountancy in 1965.
Rehman, after attaining chartered accountant status, had worked in several multinational companies in England, Japan and Arab countries as an accountant. Later, in 1969, he joined the chartered accountant firm of the country "Rahman Rahman Huq" as a Senior Partner where he had worked with prominent economist and three times Finance Minister of Bangladesh, M. Saifur Rahman. He joined the Hotel InterContinental Dhaka and worked there till the liberation war of Bangladesh broke out.
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