Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury
হাসান মশহুদ চৌধূরী
11th Chief of Army Staff
In office
16 June 2002 – 15 June 2005
PresidentA. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar (Acting)
Iajuddin Ahmed
Prime MinisterKhaleda Zia
Preceded byM Harun-Ar-Rashid
Succeeded byMoeen U Ahmed
2nd Director General of Special Security Force
In office
19 December 1987 – 13 June 1988
PresidentHussain Muhammad Ershad
Prime MinisterMizanur Rahman Chowdhury
Moudud Ahmed
Preceded byJahangir Kabir
Succeeded byKazi Mahmud Hasan
2nd Chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission
In office
22 February 2007 – 2 April 2009
Appointed byIajuddin Ahmed
President
Preceded bySultan Hossain Khan
Succeeded byGhulam Rahman
Personal details
Born (1948-09-09) 9 September 1948 (age 76)
Sylhet, East Bengal, Pakistan
Alma materShippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Military service
Allegiance Pakistan (before 1974)
 Bangladesh
Branch/service Pakistan Army
 Bangladesh Army
Years of service1969–2005
Rank Lieutenant General
UnitFrontier Force Regiment
East Bengal Regiment
Commands
Battles/warsBangladesh Liberation War (As P.O.W)
Gulf War

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury (Bengali: হাসান মশহুদ চৌধূরী; born 9 September 1948)[1] was a Bangladesh Army general who was 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from 16 June 2002 to 15 June 2005. He was the last officer to serve in this position who had first been commissioned by and served with the Pakistani Army, before the Liberation War of 1971. He served for two years before the war.

After Chowdhury retired from his career with the Bangladesh Army, in October 2006 he was appointed as an adviser of the interim caretaker government. Chowdhury and three other advisers, Akbar Ali Khan, C M Shafi Sami and Sultana Kamal, resigned in December .

In 2007, Chowdhury was appointed as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission. He served nearly two years until April 2009 and resigned during Sheikh Hasina's government period.

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