Mohammad Abul Quasem | |
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মোহাম্মদ আবুল কাসেম | |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 17 September 1971 – 14 December 1971 | |
Governor | Abdul Motaleb Malik |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 1962–1965 | |
Succeeded by | Paniruddin Ahmed |
Constituency | NE-1 (Rangpur-1) |
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 1947–1954 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1913 Sodurtilla,Goalpara District,British India |
Political party | Convention Muslim League |
Alma mater | University of Karachi Cotton College |
Occupation | Politician and lawyer |
Mohammad Abul Quasem (Bengali :মোহাম্মদআবুলকাসেম) was a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer. He was a member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan and the Finance Minister of East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Abul Quasem was born in 1913 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Sodurtilla,Mankachar Thana,Goalpara District in the then Assam Province of British India. [1]
He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Cotton College in 1938. [1] In 1946,he became a member of the Assam Legislative Council representing the South Dhubri constituency. [1] [2] In 1950,three years after the partition of India,he left Assam (which became an Indian state) [1] and resided in Ulipur Thana,Rangpur District,East Bengal (part of Pakistan). [3] Two years later,he became a member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. Four years after obtaining his LLB from the University of Karachi in 1956,he completed a master's degree in political science from the same university. [1] In 1962,he represented Rangpur-1 as a member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan. [4] He was appointed deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. [1] He was a member of the Council Muslim League [5] and became the president of the East Pakistan Council Muslim League in 1964. [1] On 17 September 1971,during the Bangladesh Liberation War,he was appointed a member of the cabinet of Abdul Motaleb Malik, [5] serving as the finance minister of East Pakistan. [6] After the independence of Bangladesh,on 24 December 1971,the Government of Bangladesh arrested him for collaborating with Pakistan during the war. [7] On 30 November 1973,he was released after the government declared a general amnesty for detained cabinet members.
Quasem died in the 1980s or earlier. [8]