Aminul Karim

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Lieutenant general

Aminul Karim

NDC, IDMC, PSC
Native name
আমিনুল করিম
Birth nameMohd Aminul Karim
Nickname(s)Rumi
Born (1955-07-01) 1 July 1955 (age 68)
Shibganj, Nawabganj, East Bengal (now, Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
AllegianceFlag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
Service/branchFlag of the Bangladesh Army.svg  Bangladesh Army
Years of service1975-2009
Rank Bangladesh-army-OF-8.svg Lieutenant General
BD Army Lieutenant General Star Plate.svg
UnitRegiment of Artillery
Commands held
Battles/wars Chittagong Hill Tracts Conflict
Alma mater University of Dhaka
Harvard Kennedy School
National Defence College
College of Defence Management
Rajshahi Cadet College

Aminul Karim (born 1 July 1955) is a retired lieutenant general of the Bangladesh Army. He served as the military secretary to the president of Bangladesh, Iajuddin Ahmed. He was a senior research fellow at the Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Aminul Karim was born on 1 July 1955 in Shibganj upazila of Chapai Nawabganj. He passed SSC in 1972 and HSC in 1974 from Rajshahi Cadet College. He graduated from University of Dhaka in 1980. He completed his staff course in 1985 from the Armed Forces Staff College at Kuala Lumpur. He completed the long defence management course (Master's in Management Studies) in 1992 from the College of Defence Management affiliated to Osmania University in Secunderabad, India. In 1994, he obtained his post graduate (MSS--political science) degree from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka. He graduated from the National University in 1995 with a master's degree in defence studies. He completed the Executive Program (Conflict Management) course in 2000 from the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2001, he completed the national defence course (M Phil) from the National Defence College. He completed a senior executive program course in 2003 from the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies from the National Defense University, Washington, D.C.. He was awarded PhD degree by University of Dhaka in 2007 for his dissertation on Chinese modernization. [1] [4]

Career

Aminul Karim was commissioned in Bangladesh Army as an officer in 1975 in the Regiment of Artillery. He commanded two field units and two field brigades including one independent brigade. He commanded a unit in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in counterinsurgency role. He worked as brigade major in an independent brigade and a staff officer in the military operations directorate at Army Headquarters. Aminul was a faculty member of Defence Services Command and Staff College from 1992 to 1995. From 2001 to 2002, he served as a faculty member at the National Defence College, training senior military and civilian officials in defence and senior management of national security. From 2002 to 2003, he served as the Quartermaster General of the Bangladesh Army. He served as the Adjutant General of the Bangladesh Army in 2004. From 2004 to 2005 he served as the General Officer Commanding of an Army Division of the Bangladesh Army. [1] [4]

He served as Commandant of the Defence Services Command and Staff College from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2008, he served as the Military Secretary to the President of Bangladesh, (with the rank of Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh). From 2003 to 2004 as Major General of the Bangladesh Army and from 2008 to 2009 as Lieutenant General worked as Commandant of the National Defence College affiliated with the Bangladesh University of Professionals. [4] [1] He had been sent on forced retirement from Bangladesh Army on March 12, 2009. [2]

After retirement from Bangladesh Army he started his academic career in the University of Malaya as a senior research fellow/ Adjunct Professor. He was a visiting professor at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing and a visiting scholar at Ohio State University, USA. He authored and co-authored many high impact factor academic Journal publications and Books, and a good number of book chapters including one in Nature. These are mostly sole-authored. He has 20 Clarivate-indexed journal publications to his credit till date. He is a member of Southeast and South Asia Clarivate Researchers Forum. He is a semantic scholar. He is also a member of Asian Peace movement organized by National University of Singapore. He is a member of International Political Science Association, attending three of its Research Committees, also being on one of its boards. He is now a member of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, a top think-tank. He is a founding member of CARES, another think tank for scientific research and innovation.

He is a member of Rotary Club of Dhaka Central, Dhaka Club Limited, Retired Armed Forces Welfare Association Club, United Nations Association of Bangladesh, and Old Rajshahi Cadets' Association.

He also worked as the vice-chairman and director of Trust Bank Limited, chairman, Sena Kalyan Sangstha, chairman, Radisson Water Garden Hotel, Dhaka, and chairman of Governing Body of all Bangladesh Cadet Colleges. He is a founding director of Green Care Agro Limited (GCAL), dedicated to ameliorate the socioeconomic condition of the local people, through tea production in the Panchagarh district. He is a founding member of Ziauddin Mondol Foundation at his ancestral village Ranibari for social works.

Books

Notable books published by Aminul include: [5] [6] 

The Bay of Bengal Geopolitics and the QUAD.

His journal publications appear in Springer, Nature, Wiley, Cambridge, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Pal grave McMillan etc.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Karim, Mohd Aminul. "CV - Lt. General Dr. Aminul Karim. (1)".
  2. 1 2 চাকরি হারিয়েছেন ১৯৭, ছেড়েছেন ১৬১ জন. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  3. ↑ দুই জেনারেল অবসরে, ৯ম ডিভিশনে নতুন জিওসি. bdnews24.com (in Bengali). 12 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  4. 1 2 3 Mohd Aminul Karim (2006). Contemporary Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific and Bangladesh. Bangladesh: Academic Press & Publishers Library. p. 255. ISBN   9840802135.
  5. ↑ "Mohd Aminul Karim". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  6. ↑ "Md. Aminul Karim Books - মোঃ আমিনুল করিম এর বই". www.rokomari.com. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
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