Majid-ul-Haq
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Majid-ul-Haq | |
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| State Minister of Industries | |
| In office 6 June 1991 – 7 February 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
| State Minister of Water Resource | |
| In office 7 June 1993 – 7 February 1996 | |
| Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
| Member of Parliament for Magura-1 | |
| In office 1 March 1991 – 10 June 1996 | |
| Preceded by | M. A. Matin |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Serajul Akbar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 October 1926 Major General  |
| Unit | Corps of Engineers |
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| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 |
Major General Majid-ul-Haq (
Bangladeshi Army officer and a minister of the Government of Bangladesh
.
Early life
Haq was born in
1965 War
broke out between India and Pakistan. He was also posted to the Pakistan Navy in Karachi.
After the declaration of martial law in 1969, he was posted as Deputy Martial Law Administrator in East Pakistan. A disagreement with one of his erstwhile West Pakistani colleagues led to his being sent back to General Headquarters in Rawalpindi before the 1970 elections. In September 1971 he and his family were moved to detention camps, first in Kohat then in Mandi Bahauddin.
Life in Bangladesh
Repatriated to independent Bangladesh in 1973, he served in various capacities: Chairman Bangladesh Steel Corporation special Secretary with the rank and status of State Minister,
President Ershad
. In June 1996 he resigned from the Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and in 2001 from the party. Majid-ul-Haq published a memoir, Unknown, Unhonoured and Unsung in 2012.
Major General Majid-ul-Haq died on 25 March 2013. His wife, Mumtaz Jahan Zeb-Un-Nisa Majid, died 10 days before he did.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ চলে গেলেন মাগুরার প্রাক্তন সংসদ সদস্য শামসুন্নাহার আহমেদ [Former Magura MP Shamsunnahar Ahmed has passed away]. Magura News (in Bengali). 26 October 2017.
- ^ "Major General Majid-ul-Haq | The University Press Limited". Uplbooks.com.bd. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
- ^ "Former minister Majid-ul-Haq dies". New Age. 2013-03-26. Archived from the original on 2013-09-01. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
- ^ "Former minister Majid-ul-Haq passes away". The Financial Express. Dhaka. 2013-03-26. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
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