Fasihuddin Mahtab (), also spelt Fashiuddin Mahtab, was a Bangladeshi researcher, social worker and the secretary-general of

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and

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, as well as a member of President

Ziaur Rahman Ziaur Rahman (19 January 193630 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until Assassination of Ziaur Rahman, his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of t ...

's advisory council and later technocrat minister. He was also the son-in-law of BIRDEM founder

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, who was also a member of the advisory council.

Career

In late 1970s, Mahtab served as a

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for

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during Ziaur Rahman's presidency before being promoted to

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. He served variously as Planning Minister, Agriculture Minister and

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as a member of the

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(BNP) in the 2nd legislative session of the

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Personal life

Mahtab was born to Bangladeshi politician and magistrate and East Pakistani MP of the

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Mahtabuddin Sarker Mahtabuddin Sarker (; 1903–1973), also known as Fuka Dipti (), was a Bangladeshi politician and magistrate. He was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan. Early life Mahtabuddin Sarker Fuka was born in 1903 to a Bengali Muslim family ...

. He was married to Ibrahim's daughter Hajera Mahtab.

Books

* ''Green Haauz Protikriya o Bangladeshe Tar Probhab'' (transl. Greenhouse Reaction and Its Effect on Bangladesh) * Report on the Agricultural Census of Bangladesh

Death and burial

Mahtab died on September 22, 2008, at Leeds Hospital in

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and was buried at the Banani Graveyard in

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References

{{Authority control 2008 deaths Bangladeshi social workers State ministers of agriculture of Bangladesh Ministers of planning of Bangladesh Ministers of agriculture of Bangladesh Ministers of finance of Bangladesh Advisers of Sayem ministry People from Chapai Nawabganj district Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Burials at Banani Graveyard Year of birth missing