Rezaqul Haider is a retired Bangladesh Army officer who is the former director of the

Border Guard Bangladesh Border Guard Bangladesh (abbr. BGB; ) is a paramilitary force responsible for the border security of Bangladesh. The BGB is entrusted with the responsibility to defend the border of Bangladesh with India and Myanmar. It was formerly known as t ...

Early life

Haider was born on 18 April 1951 in Dhaka, he passed both SSC and HSC from

Faujdarhat Cadet College Faujdarhat Cadet College is a historic public military high school being the first of its kind in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and second in entire Pakistan, modelled after Public school (United Kingdom), public schools in the UK (according t ...

. He did his graduation in Bachelor of Arts under Pakistan Military Academy and Masters in Defence Studies from Allahabad University, India.

Career

He was a student of 45th PMA long course. Haider was commissioned on 29 August 1971. He became 14th

Director General of Bangladesh Rifles The Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh is the professional head of the Border Guard Bangladesh (abbreviated as BGB, previously ''Bangladesh Rifles''). The current DG is Major general, Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui. The fi ...

on 1 December 2001. He has worked at UNAMET for

UNTAET The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET, ), was a United Nations mission in East Timor that aimed to solve the decades-long East Timorese crisis in the area occupied by Indonesian military. UNTAET provided an int ...

as Chief Military Observer. He is the recipient of The Wiesel Ethics Award '2000 for his contributions to the international civil service. He was supposed to be appointed by prime minister Khaleda Zia as she decided, but

Moeen U Ahmed Moeen Uddin Ahmed (born 21 January 1953) is a former Bangladeshi four star general and the 12th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army, Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from 15 June 2005 to 15 June 2009. He has worked in High Commi ...

managed his appointment, cancelling the decision and using his army colleague Major (rtd) Sayeed Eskandar who was incidentally a younger brother of Khaleda Zia to cancel the decision. In 2005, he was appointed as the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Republic of Turkey.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haider, Rezaqul Living people 1951 births Bangladesh Army generals Faujdarhat Cadet College alumni

Early life

Career

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