Muhammad Shamsul Huq
{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician and educator (1912–2006)}}
{{other people5||Shams ul Haq (disambiguation){{!}}Shams ul Haq}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Muhammad Shamsul Huq
| native_name = {{nobold|মুহাম্মদ শামসুল হক}}
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Shamsul Haque Brussels 1979.jpg
| caption = Haque as the Bangladesh minister of foreign affairs in Brussels (1979)
| office = Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka
| term_start = 23 September 1975
| term_end = 1 February 1976
| predecessor = Abdul Matin Chowdhury
| successor = Fazlul Halim Chowdhury
| office1 = Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajshahi
| term_start1 = 1965
| term_end1 = 1969
| predecessor1 = Momtazuddin Ahmed
| successor1 = Syed Sajjad Hussain
| office2 = Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
| term_start2 = March 1977
| term_end2 = March 1982
| predecessor2 = Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
| successor2 = A R Shamsud Doha
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|10|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pashchimgaon, Laksam, Tippera, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Islamia College|University of Calcutta}}
| profession = University academic
| awards = Ekushey Padak (2003)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|2|23|1912|10|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh
}}
Muhammad Shamsul Huq (12 October 1912 – 23 February 2006) was a Bangladeshi politician and educator. He served as an education minister in erstwhile East Pakistan, and became the minister of foreign affairs six years after the independence of Bangladesh.{{cite web |title=List of Former Foreign Ministers |url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/foreign-minister |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |access-date=20 August 2017 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829193856/http://mofa.gov.bd/foreign-minister |archive-date=29 August 2017 |url-status=dead}} Shamsul Huq also served as vice-chancellor in both the University of Dhaka and University of Rajshahi.{{cite Banglapedia |author=Sirajul Islam |article=Huq, Muhammad Shamsul}} He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2003 by the government of Bangladesh.{{cite web |url=http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/একুশে-পদকপ্রাপ্ত-সূধীবৃন্দ |script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ |publisher=Government of Bangladesh |access-date=20 June 2016}}
Early life and education
Shamsul Huq was born on 12 October 1912 to a Bengali Muslim parents Karimul Huq and Mahmuda Khatun in the village of Pashchimgaon in Laksam, Tipperah District, Bengal Province. In 1927, he passed his matriculation exam from the local Faizunnisa-Badrunnisa High School in Paschimgaon. He completed his Intermediate of Arts from Feni College in 1929. Shamsul Huq earned his bachelor's in political economy and political philosophy from the Islamia College of Calcutta in 1931. He got his master's from the University of Calcutta in 1933. He also received training from the University of London from 1945 to 1946, under the Post-War Education Reforms Programme.
Career
Huq served as the third vice-chancellor of the University of Rajshahi from 31 August 1965 to 4 August 1969.{{cite web |title=List of former Vice Chancellor |url=http://www.ru.ac.bd/vc/?page_id=44 |website=University of Rajshahi |access-date=10 April 2019}} He then served the government of Pakistan under General Yahya Khan as a minister in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Research until the independence of Bangladesh.{{cite book |last1=Zaman |first1=Habibuz |title=Seventy Years in a Shaky Subcontinent |date=1999 |publisher=Janus Publishing Company Lim |isbn=978-1-85756-405-1 |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phSu0SDeY0C&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque&pg=PA184 |access-date=20 August 2017 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Mustafa |first1=Sayid Ghulam |title=English Essays of Pakistan |date=1997 |publisher=Ferozsons |isbn=978-969-0-01374-3 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-7iAAAAMAAJ&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque |access-date=20 August 2017 |language=en}}
From 23 September 1975 to 1 February 1976, Huq served as the fifteenth vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka.{{cite web |title=Vice-Chancellors of the University Since 1921 |url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/roll_of_honour |website=University of Dhaka |access-date=10 April 2019}} He became Bangladesh's fifth Minister of Foreign Affairs in November 1975, serving this role until March 1982. From 1977 to 1978, Shamsul Huq was a member of the president of Bangladesh's advisory board. Along with President Ziaur Rahman, he contributed to the formulation of the formation of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1980.{{cite book |last1=Ahmed |first1=Zahid Shahab |year=2012 |title=Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NfTsCwAAQBAJ&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque&pg=PT55 |publisher=Routledge |page=32 |isbn=978-1-4094-6769-4 |access-date=20 August 2017 |language=en}}
Works
- Charging Education in England (1948)
- Compulsory Education in Pakistan (1954)
- Education and Development Strategy in South and South East Asia (1965)
- Pakistan's New Education Policy (1970)
- Education Manpower and Development in South and South East Asia (1976)
- "The Patterns of Education in South and South East Asia" in Encyclopædia Britannica (New Edition)
- "Education in German Encyclopedia" Lexikon der Pedagogi (Verlag Herder)
- Higher Education and Employment in Bangladesh (co-author, 1983)
- South Asia Regional Co-operation: Its Underlying Concept, Problems and Promises in Future of South Asia (1985)
- Role of Education in Development based on lectures delivered at the Bangla Academy (1987)
- Bangladesh in International Politics: the Dilemmas of the Weak States (1993)
- Aid, Development and Diplomacy (2001)
- Bissho-rajniti o Bangladesh (2001)
- Bikasman Somaj o Shikhka (1987)
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Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Bangladesh
Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Category:Chairmans of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh