Lieutenant General
Masud Uddin Chowdhury
MP
Member of Parliament
for Feni-3
Assumed office
10 January 2019
Preceded byRahim Ullah
9th Principal Staff Officer of Armed Forces Division
In office
5 June 2007 – 2 June 2008
Preceded byJahangir Alam Chowdhury
Succeeded byMd Abdul Mubeen
Personal details
Born (1954-06-30) June 30, 1954
Feni, East Bengal, Pakistan (now Chittagong, Bangladesh)
SpouseJasmin Masud
EducationM.D.S (NU), Postgraduation[1]
Military service
Allegiance Bangladesh
Branch/service Bangladesh Army
National Defence Force
Years of service1972-2008
Rank Lieutenant General
UnitEast Bengal Regiment
Commands
Battles/warsBangladesh 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]

Career

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]

Personal life

Chowdhury's brother in law is Sayeed Iskander, who was the brother of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Constituency 267_11th_En". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  2. ↑ "Gen Masud made NDC chief in army changes". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Ershad appoints Masud Chy as defense adviser". The Daily Star. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Cleaning up the Mess". Star Weekend Magazine. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  5. 1 2 3 "Lt Gen Masud posted to foreign ministry". The Daily Star. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  6. ↑ দেশে ফেরার সময় গুনছেন জেনারেল মাসুদ চৌধুরী. RBN24 (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Case against Afsan Chowdhury over Facebook post". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  8. ↑ "Voicebox". Star Weekend Magazine. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  9. ↑ "Gen Masud recalled from Australia". The Daily Star. 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  10. ↑ "Lt Gen Masud leaves for US". The Daily Star. UNB. 2007-10-29. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  11. 1 2 "Not returning anytime soon". The Daily Star. 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  12. ↑ "The High Commissioner". Bangladesh High Commission, Canberra, Australia. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "3 new diplomatic missions soon". The Daily Star. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Want to go on retirement from army, Gen Masud". Priyo News. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  15. ↑ Islam, Rafiqul (30 November 2018). "Lt Gen Masud's nomination irks 14-party leaders in Feni 3". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  16. ↑ "List of 11th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  17. ↑ "Baridhara Cosmopolitan Club donates ambulance to Kurmitola hospital". Dhaka Tribune. 2021-09-23. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  18. ↑ "Masud Uddin Chowdhury re-elected Baridhara Cosmopolitan Club president". Dhaka Tribune. 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
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