Akbar Kabir

Akbar Kabir was a Bangladeshi social worker and an adviser for the information ministry in the advisory council of presidents Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem and Major General Ziaur Rahman from September 1976 to October 1977. He was also the brother of former Indian Bengali education minister Humayun Kabir and Congress politician Jehangir Kabir as well as the father-in-law of renowned Bangladeshi barrister Nazmul Huda, who has also served in the Ministry of Information during former prime minister Khaleda Zia's first ministry.

Education

Kabir completed his M.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1935.

Personal life

Kabir was born on 5 January 1915 in Kamarpur upazilla of Faridpur, Bengal Presidency. He had a son, Selim Kabir and two daughters, famous Bangladeshi lawyer and founding president of Bangladesh Women Lawyers Association Sigma Huda and social activist and CEO of economic empowerment NGO Nijera Kori Khushi Kabir. He also had two granddaughters through Sigma, Antora Salima Huda and Srabonti Ameena Huda.

Death

He died at 10.30 pm BST on Thurday, 3 October 2002 due to old age at the age of 87. He was buried in his family graveyard in Faridpur following Friday prayers the next day.