Afazuddin Fakir

Afazuddin Fakir is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Tangail-2.

Life and career

Fakir was born in 1925 at Nikrail in what was then Mymensingh district. He graduated in 1945 and started a jute business in Narayanganj.
As an independent candidate he was elected a member of the National Assembly for constituency Mymensingh-II in 1965.
Fakir was a member of the national committee. He sent a letter to the president of Pakistan, Yahya Khan, asking him to deescalate the situation in East Pakistan on 13 March 1971 before the start of Bangladesh Liberation war. He was elected to parliament from Tangail-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979.