Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

Who is Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury?

Lieutenant General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury was Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh from 16 June 2002 to 15 June 2005. He was the last officer in this position to have been first commissioned by the Pakistani Army, before the Liberation War of 1971.

After Chowdhury retired from the 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. Their actions went against democracy and helped Lt. Gen. Moeen to rule country for two years form January 2007. Sheikh Hasina termed their role as failure.

In 2007, General Mashhud Chowdhury was appointed as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission. He served nearly two years until April 2009 when was forced to resign by Sheikh Hasina's government. A group of BNP led by Mahmudur Rahman went against him as well. Rahman argued that General Mashhud did corruption while he extended his flat in government allotted plot in Dhaka.