Zubaida Rahman
Zubaida Rahman is a Bangladeshi physician, and the wife of politician Tarique Rahman.
Personal life
Zubaida Khan was born in Sylhet. She is the daughter of Rear Admiral Mahbub Ali Khan, who was Chief of the Naval Staff of Bangladesh during the government of Ziaur Rahman and Minister of Communications and Agriculture in the government of Hussain Muhammad Ershad.Zubaida's uncle is General M. A. G. Osmani, the commander-in-chief of Bangladesh's war of independence. She is also the cousin of Amnesty International's former Secretary General Irene Khan.
Zubaida married Tarique Rahman on 3 February 1994. After Tarique's release from prison in 2008, she took a study leave and went to London with him. In May 2025, after the fall of the Hasina government, she returned to Bangladesh.
Career
In 1995, Zubaida joined the public health cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service as a doctor. After moving to London in 2008, she studied medicine post-graduate at Imperial College London. The Awami League government cancelled her job in September 2014. In 2016, Sheikh Hasina praised Zubaida Rahman, endorsing her potential as a promising political figure.In May 2025, after returning from a 17-year exile, she was rumored to be reinstated to her position in government service.