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Biography of Ziaur RahmanName: Ziaur RahmanBirth Date: January 19, 1936 Death Date: May 31, 1981 Place of Birth: Calcutta, India Nationality: Bangladeshi Gender: Male Occupations: president Ziaur Rahman Bangladesh president Ziaur Rahman, popularly known as Zia (1936-1981), succeeded to a significant extent in bringing political and economic stability to the new nation following a period of great disruption.Mansur Rahman, father of Ziaur Rahman, was a chemist working for the government of India stationed in Calcutta. Ziaur Rahman was born there January 19, 1936. When Calcutta became the target of Japanese air strikes in 1940, like many urban Bengali families with rural links Mansur Rahman sent his family to his ancestral home in the small town of Bogra in northern Bengal. After Germany surrendered and the Japanese threat to Calcutta diminished, Mansur Rahman brought his family back and enrolled Zia in one of the leading boys schools of Calcutta--Hare School--where Zia studied until the independence and partition of India in 1947. On August 14, 1947, Mansur Rahman, like many Muslims working for the old British government of India, exercised his option to work …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…formally propose a plan for the South Asia Regional Cooperation in 1980, which culminated as a cooperation movement through an agreement between the seven countries in 1983.Through Zia's "open arms" policy the traditional factionalism of Bengali politics was contained and a balance between opposing views and camps in civilian and military vested interests was struck, at least for the time being. But personal rivalries coupled with the perception of injustice by one of his trusted lieutenants, Major General Abul Manzoor, abruptly ended Zia's presidency. On the early morning of May 31, 1981, in the city of Cittagong, Zia was assassinated in a coup led by Manzoor. After several months of turmoil General Hossain Mohammad Ershad (born 1930) took over the government. Further Reading Baxter, Craig Bangladesh: A New Nation in an Old Setting (1984) and Zillur R. Khan, Leadership in the Least Developed Nation: Bangladesh (1983) provide additional information on Zia as the leader of Bangladesh. |