M. Aminul Islam
{{Short description|Md. Aminul Islam is a Bangladeshi career diplomat}}
{{Other people||Aminul Islam (disambiguation)}}
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|honorific-prefix = His Excellency
| name = M. Aminul Islam
|native_name = এম আমিনুল ইসলাম
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|order = High Commissioner for the People's Republic of Bangladesh to Canada
|term_start = May 1998
|term_end = March 2001
|predecessor = Mufleh R. Osmany
|successor = Suhrab Hossain
|office1 = Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan
|term_start1 = 1981
|term_end1 = 1982
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|successor1 = Mohiuddin Ahmed Jaigirdar
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|spouse = Nasreen Islam
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M. Aminul Islam is a former Bangladeshi career diplomat.{{cite news |last=Boswell |first=Randy |date=7 December 2011 |title=Noor Chowdhury, who now lives in Toronto, can't be extradited to Bangladesh: diplomat |work=National Post |location=Ontario |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/bangladeshi-presidents-alleged-assassin-who-now-lives-in-toronto-cant-be-extradited-diplomat |access-date=31 October 2016}}
Career
From 7 January 1980 to 15 September 1981, Islam served as the ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan.{{Cite web |title=List of ambassadors of Bangladesh to Bhutan |url=https://embassies.info/BangladeshiEmbassyinThimphuBhutan/diplomats |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=embassies.info |language=en}}{{Cite web |url=https://thimphu.mofa.gov.bd/en/site/page/roll-of-honour-2 |access-date=2023-06-28 |title=List of Ambassadors |website=thimphu.mofa.gov.bd}} M. U. A. Jaigirdar succeeded Islam as the ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan.{{Cite magazine |title=Bangladesh Ambassador Presents Credentials to His Majesty the King |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgNDAAAAYAAJ&q=ambassador+M.+Aminul+Islam |magazine=Kuensel |date=13 June 1982 |volume=XVII |issue=24 |publisher=Department of Information, Ministry of Development at the Royal Government of Bhutan Press |pages=3 |language=en}} He served as chief protocol officer to President Hussain Mohammad Ershad.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcNFE1DsHZAC&dq=ambassador+M.+Aminul+Islam&pg=PA9 |title=South Asia and U.S. Interests: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate |date=1985 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=9 |language=en}}
From May 1998 to April 2001, Islam served as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Canada.{{cite web |url=http://www.bdhcottawa.ca/index.php/roll-of-honour |title=Roll of Honour |publisher=High Commission for the People's Republic of Bangladesh Ottawa, Canada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228005330/http://www.bdhcottawa.ca/index.php/roll-of-honour |archive-date=28 December 2014 |access-date=31 October 2016 }} He succeeded Mufleh R. Osmany and was replaced by Suhrab Hossain.
In 1999, Islam, as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Canada, asked the Canadian government to extradite S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury, convicted assassin of President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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Category:High commissioners of Bangladesh to Canada
Category:Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Bhutan