Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed
| Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed | |
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| Native name | সৈয়দ ইশতিয়াক আহমেদ |
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January 16, 1932 Ghazipur, North-Western Provinces, British India |
| Died | July 12, 2003 (aged 71) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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| Occupation | attorney general |
| Spouse(s) | Sufia Ahmed (m. 1955) |
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Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed (January 16, 1932 – July 12, 2003) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist. He was a former attorney general of Bangladesh. He served as an adviser of law to the non-party caretaker government in two successive terms.
Ahmed and his family were originated from Ghazipur in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India. He had four elder brothers and one younger one. He got his elementary education in Ramanath High English School in Hili, Dakshin Dinajpur where his father, Syed Zafar Ahmed, had a business. He also studied in Calcutta Madrasa in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Ahmed passed the matriculation and intermediate exam from Mymensingh Zilla School in 1948 and Dhaka College in 1950 respectively. He completed his bachelor's and master's in economics at the University of Dhaka in 1953 and 1954 respectively. He obtained his second master's in economics from London School of Economics in 1958.
Ahmed joined The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in 1958. He then taught in a secondary school in London until he returned to Bangladesh in 1960. He worked at the Chamber of Barrister ATM Mustafa at Ramkrishna Mission Road in Dhaka. He started practicing law at the East Pakistan High Court.
Ahmed was appointed additional attorney general in 1972 and attorney general in 1976. He was the permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in 1978. He was recruited as a member of the International Election Observer Group and monitored national elections of Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Maldives. He served as an adviser to the Caretaker government of Bangladesh in 1991 and again in 2001. He was twice elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, during 1978–79 and 1989–90.
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