Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed | |
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সৈয়দ ইশতিয়াক আহমেদ | |
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| 3rdAttorney General of Bangladesh | |
| In office 22 March 1976 – 6 May 1976 | |
| Appointed by | Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem |
| President | Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem |
| Preceded by | Faqueer Shahabuddin Ahmad |
| Succeeded by | Khandaker Abu Bakr |
| Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs | |
| In office 31 March 1996 – 23 June 1996 | |
| President | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Matin Khasru |
| In office 15 July 2001 – 10 October 2001 | |
| President | Shahabuddin Ahmed |
| Preceded by | Abdul Matin Khasru |
| Succeeded by | Moudud Ahmed |
| Adviser for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives | |
| In office 31 March 1996 – 23 June 1996 | |
| President | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
| Preceded by | Abdus Salam Talukder |
| Succeeded by | Zillur Rahman |
| Adviser for Civil Aviation and Tourism | |
| In office 15 July 2001 – 10 October 2001 | |
| President | Shahabuddin Ahmed |
| Preceded by | Sayed Ashraful Islam |
| Succeeded by | Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1932-01-16)16 January 1932 |
| Died | 12 July 2003(2003-07-12) (aged 71) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed (16 January 1932 – 12 July 2003) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist. He was a formerattorney general of Bangladesh.[1] He served as an adviser of law to the non-party caretaker government in two successive terms.[2]
Ahmed and his family originated fromGhazipur in present-dayUttar Pradesh, India.[3] He had four elder brothers and one younger one. He got his elementary education in Ramanath High English School inHili, Dakshin Dinajpur where his father, Syed Zafar Ahmed, had a business.[4][3] He also studied inCalcutta Madrasa inKolkata,West Bengal.[5]
Ahmed passed the matriculation and intermediate exam fromMymensingh Zilla School in 1948 andDhaka College in 1950 respectively.[6][7] He completed his bachelor's and master's in economics at theUniversity of Dhaka in 1953 and 1954 respectively.[3] He obtained his second master's in economics fromLondon School of Economics in 1958.[4]
Ahmed joinedThe Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in 1958.[2][8] He then taught in a higher secondary school in London until he returned to Bangladesh in 1960.[6] He than started practicing law at the East Pakistan High Court.[4] He worked as an associate barrister at the chamber of BarristerATM Mustafa at Ramkrishna Mission Road in Dhaka.[3]
Ahmed was appointed additional attorney general in 1972 and attorney general in 1976. He was the permanent representative of Bangladesh to theUnited Nations in 1978.[9] He was recruited as a member of the International Election Observer Group and monitored national elections of Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Maldives.[6] He served as an adviser to theCaretaker government of Bangladesh in 1991 and again in 2001.[7] He was twice elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, during 1978–79 and 1989–90.[6]
Ahmed taught law at theUniversity of Dhaka as a part-time faculty member from 1961 to 1968 and served the university as a senior legal adviser from 1972 to 1991.[6] He established the law firm"Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed & Associates (SIA&A)".[10]
Ahmed was the president of the Rotary Club of Dhaka North, life member of theBangla Academy, theAsiatic Society of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Itihas Parisad, the board of trustees ofCentre for Policy Dialogue.[4]
Ahmed marriedSufia Ibrahim in June 1955. Sufia is an academic and the first femaleNational Professor of Bangladesh.[11] Together they had one sonSyed Refaat Ahmed, 25thChief Justice of Bangladesh[12] and a daughter, Tasneem Raina Fateh, a physician.[3][1]
Ahmed had been suffering from diabetes, anaemia and encephalopathy. He died of old-age complications at BIRDEM Hospital in Dhaka on 12 July 2003.[9]
On July 18, 2004, Sufia established a trust fund titled"Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Foundation" at theAsiatic Society of Bangladesh.[13]
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