Zakaria Khan Chowdhury

In 1960, Chowdhury created Purboshuri, a secret organisation, in London that would work for the independence of Bangladesh. He protested outside the Pakistan Embassy in London over the filing of the Agartala Conspiracy Case.^[1] He sent Sir William Thomas Williams, QC, to defend Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with whom he had close contact, in the Agartala case.^[1] He returned to Bangladesh from London in 1972. In 1977, he became an advisor to the government of President Ziaur Rahman. He was instrumental in the formation of the Bangladesh Haor and Wetland Development Board.^[1]

Chowdhury worked as an organiser during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was the publisher of The Manobkantha.^[2]

Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Habiganj-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate on 15 February 1996.^[3]

Chowdhury died on 25 March 2021 at Green Life Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.^[2]