Lieutenant General Masud Uddin Chowdhury MP | |
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Member of Parliament for Feni-3 | |
Assumed office 10 January 2019 | |
Preceded by | Rahim Ullah |
9th Principal Staff Officer of Armed Forces Division | |
In office 5 June 2007 –2 June 2008 | |
Preceded by | Jahangir Alam Chowdhury |
Succeeded by | Md Abdul Mubeen |
Personal details | |
Born | Feni,East Bengal,Pakistan (now Chittagong,Bangladesh) | June 30,1954
Spouse | Jasmin Masud |
Education | M.D.S (NU),Postgraduation [1] |
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1972-2008 |
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Unit | East Bengal Regiment |
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Battles/wars | Bangladesh Liberation War |
Masud Uddin Chowdhury is a retired lieutenant general of Bangladesh Army and a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician. [2] [3] He is the former chief coordinator of the National Coordination Committee on Combating Corruption and Crime. [4]
Chowdhury was an officer of the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini and was made an Bangladesh Army officer after the Jatiya Rakhi Bahini was absorbed into the army. [5]
Chowdhury was appointed director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence in 2003 by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. [5]
Chowdhury served as a principal staff officer of the Bangladesh Armed Forces Division. [6] He also served as the general officer commanding (GOC) of 9 Infantry Division and area commander of Savar Area and GOC 33 Infantry Division and area commander Comilla Area. [7] In 2007,he was the chief coordinator of the National Coordination Committee on Combating Corruption and Crime during the caretaker government rule during the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis. [8] [9] He attended the 10th Annual Asia-Pacific Chiefs of Defence conference in the United States. [10] Tarique Rahman,son for former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia,told United States Diplomat Geeta Pasi that he was tortured on the orders of Chowdhury in military custody. [11] Pasi reported it was surprising as Chowdhury was believed to have been close to Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [11]
In January 2008,Chowdhury was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed to the National Defence College. [5] [3] Chowdhury was the High Commissioner for Bangladesh to Australia from June 2008 to 2014. [12] [13] [14] He founded Picasso restaurant in Dhaka. [7]
In 2017,Chowdhury filed a case under section-57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act,2006 against Afsan Chowdhury. [7]
Chowdhury became the Member of Parliament for Feni-3 in 2018 by Jatiyo Party (Ershad) Ticket. [15] [16]
Chowdhury is the President of Baridhara Cosmopolitan Club Limited. [17] He was re-elected president of the club in 2018. [18]
Chowdhury's brother in law is Sayeed Iskander,who was the brother of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. [7]
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