Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a Bengali politician and statesman from Bengal in the first half of the 20th century. He served as the last Prime Minister of Bengal during the British Raj. Following the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he became a leading populist statesman of East Pakistan. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Suhrawardy was born onSeptember 1892 to a Bengali Muslim family in the town of Midnapore, now in West Bengal. He was the younger son of Justice Sir Zahid Suhrawardy, a prominent judge of the Calcutta High Court and of Khujastha Akhtar Banu a noted name in Urdu literature and scholar of Persian. Banu was the daughter of Maulana Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy and sister of British Army officer, LieutenantColonel Hassan Suhrawardy, OBE and Sir Abdullah AlMamun Suhrawardy. Suhrawardy had an elder brother Shahid Suhrawardy, the cofounder of Pakistan PEN Miscellenay with Professor Ahmed Ali.

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