Mustafa Jabbar

Mustafa Jabbar
মোস্তাফা জব্বার
Jabbar in 2018
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
In office
19 May 2019 – 29 November 2023[1]
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byHimself (as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology)
Succeeded byvacant
Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology
In office
7 January 2019 – 19 May 2019
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byHimself (as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications)
In office
2 January 2018 – 9 December 2018
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Succeeded byHimself
Personal details
Born (1949-08-12) 12 August 1949 (age 75)
Brahmanbaria, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materDhaka College University of Dhaka

Mustafa Jabbar (pronounced [mostapʰa dʒɔbbar]; born 12 August 1949)[2] is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur and a former Minister of Post and Telecommunication[3] in the Government of Bangladesh.[4][5][6][7] He also served as the president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).[8] He was initially known for the creation of Bijoy Bengali keyboard, which was developed in 1988, and was a widely used Bengali input method before the release of Unicode based Avro Keyboard.[9] He served as the president of Bangladesh Computer Samity, the national ICT organisation of Bangladesh for four consecutive periods.[10] He is a champion of Bangla Bhasha Procholon Ain, 1987, and has been praised for promoting the Bengali language in the digital media.[11]

  1. ^ টেকনোক্র্যাট তিন মন্ত্রীর পদত্যাগ কার্যকর (in Bengali). Ekattor TV. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Jabbar probable technocrat minister, again". Dhaka Tribune. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Mustafa Jabbar stripped of ICT in cabinet shuffle". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  4. ^ "IT entrepreneur Mustafa Jabbar to be made minister for ICT!". Daily Sun. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  5. ^ "47-member new cabinet announced". The Daily Star. 6 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  6. ^ "ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar". The Daily Star. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Telecommunication and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Mustafa Jabbar, new president of BASIS". The Daily Star. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  9. ^ "An amazing journey from Shahid Lipi to Avro". The Daily Star.
  10. ^ "Members of BCS". Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  11. ^ Selim, Reza. কম্পিউটারে ও মাতৃভাষায় মোস্তাফা জব্বার. Janakantha (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019.