Atiqur Rahman

M. Atiqur Rahman (1 September 1931 – 20 December 2023) was a lieutenant general and Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff from 1986 to 1990.

Early life
M. Atiqur Rahman studied at Union Academy, Delhi. He attended Gordon College, Rawalpindi.

Military career
Atiqur Rahman was commissioned in 1954 in the Pakistan Army's artillery regiment.

Rahman did not join the Bangladesh Liberation War, as he was held as a prisoner of war (POW). He returned from Pakistan in 1974 and was allowed to join the Bangladesh Army. He was the second returned Pakistan officer to become Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff after Ershad.

During the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he was a colonel and later a brigade commander of Chittagong.

Rahman served as director general of the Bangladesh Rifles (now the Bangladesh Border Guard) from 1977 to 1982.

Rahman being the senior most major general Ershad promoted M Atiqur him to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed him as Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army on 1 September 1986.

Rahman retired from the Bangladesh Army with full military honours in August 1990. He was succeeded by Nuruddin Khan as appointed by President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

Later life and death
After retirement General Atiqur Rahman stayed away from public eye and did not pursue a political career.

Atiqur Rahman died from a heart attack in Dhaka, on 20 December 2023, at the age of 92.