Barrister Abdul Muntaquim Chaudhury, a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer and organizer of the Liberation War, died in Melbourne, Australia, on October 9, 2026. He was 97.
Born on September 2, 1929, Chaudhury served as a member of Pakistan’s National Assembly in the 1960s and was re-elected in 1970. After Bangladesh gained independence, he became a member of the Constituent Assembly and helped draft the country’s constitution.
In 1973, he was appointed Bangladesh’s ambassador to Japan. He later served as the country’s ambassador to the German Democratic Republic.
After returning to Bangladesh in 1979, Chaudhury became the founding executive director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (Blast).
Family background and education
Abu Taher Abdul Muntaquim Chaudhury, whose family descended from the Kanihati Chaudhury family of Sylhet, was the youngest child of Khan Bahadur Tazzammul Ali Chaudhury.
He completed his Intermediate of Arts (IA) at Aligarh Muslim University before studying at Santiniketan and St Xavier’s College. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Calcutta and was later called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in London.
