Jalaludin Abdur Rahim

Who is Jalaludin Abdur Rahim?

Jalaludin Abdur Rahim was a Bengali communist and Nietzschean philosopher who was renowned as one of the founding members of the Pakistan Peoples Party — a democratic socialist political party. Rahim was also the first Secretary-General of the Pakistan People's Party, served as the first minister of production. A Bengali civil servant, Rahim was a philosopher who politically guided Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, serving as his mentor, and had helped Bhutto navigate through the minefield of bureaucratic establishment when Ayub Khan had taken the latter into his cabinet. Rahim also guided Bhutto after Bhutto was deposed as Foreign Minister, critically guiding Bhutto to take down the US-sponsored dictatorship of Ayub Khan.