Today is the first death anniversary of Ambassador Syed Muazzem Ali. He was born in Sylhet in 1944 to an enlightened and accomplished family. His father Syed Mustafa Ali was a well-known writer and his elder brother SM Ali was the founding editor of this newspaper. Eminent writer Syed Mujtaba Ali was his
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Syed Muazzem Ali obtained his Masters degree from Dhaka University in 1966 and was placed in the First Class. He appeared in the Pakistan Central Superior Services Exam and joined the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1968. He was serving in the Pakistan Embassy in Washington DC when the Bangladesh Liberation War broke out. Dissociating himself from the Pakistan government, along with 12 other Bengali diplomats and officials of the Embassy, and the youngest diplomat to do so, Ali was a founding member of the Bangladesh Mission in DC. Ali became active in efforts to support Bangladesh during the war, raising public awareness of the genocide in Bangladesh, raising funds to
Remembering Syed Muazzem Ali: A diplomat and a freedom fighter
Syed Muazzem Ali Ziauddin Choudhury Ziauddin Choudhury
This week marks the first death anniversary of Syed Muazzem Ali, a veteran diplomat and a freedom fighter. Muazzem Ali left a lucrative Pakistan Foreign service assignment in Washington DC in 1971 to protest the Pakistan army s undeclared war against civilians in East Pakistan and join the independence movement on the side of Bangladesh. He declared his allegiance to the government of Bangladesh. As a founding member of the Bangladesh Mission in Washington DC, he was active in the lobbying process for political support for Bangladesh s independence movement.
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