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Mohammad Abul Quasem

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Mohammad Abul Quasem
মোহাম্মদ আবুল কাসেম
Minister of Finance
In office
17 September 1971 – 14 December 1971
GovernorAbdul Motaleb Malik
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1962–1965
Succeeded byPaniruddin Ahmed
ConstituencyNE-1 (Rangpur-1)
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1947–1954
Personal details
Born1913
Sodurtilla, Goalpara District, British India
Political partyConvention Muslim League
Alma materUniversity of Karachi
Cotton College
OccupationPolitician and lawyer

Mohammad Abul Quasem (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আবুল কাসেম) 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.

Early life

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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]

Education and career

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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.

Death

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Quasem died in the 1980s or earlier.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "সংক্ষিপ্ত পরিচিতি". The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). 18 September 1971. p. 1, 6.
  2. ^ Assembly Proceedings Official Report Assam Legislative Assembly Second Session, 1946 (PDF). Government of Assam Press. 26 March 1946. p. iv.
  3. ^ Mukul, M R Akhtar (2000). চরমপত্র (in Bengali). Anannya. p. 330.
  4. ^ "LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE 3RD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN FROM 1962-1964" (PDF). na.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b Hasan Hafizur Rahman, ed. (2009) [1982]. "বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র" (in Bengali). Vol. VII. Hakkani Publishers. p. 540.
  6. ^ Momen, M A (6 March 2021). "পাকিস্তানের বিখণ্ডীকরণ ঠেকাতে..." The Business Standard. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
  7. ^ Ishtiaq, Ahmad (24 December 2021). "২৪ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৭১: সাবেক গভর্নর ডা. এ এম মালিকসহ মন্ত্রিসভার সদস্যরা আটক". The Daily Star.
  8. ^ একাত্তরের ঘাতক ও দালালরা কে কোথায় (in Bengali). Muktijuddho Chetona Bikash Kendra. 1992 [1987]. p. 21, 184.
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