Hussain muhammad ershad son of citation

Bengali military leader and statesman Hussain Mohammad Ershad born was chief of staff of the Bangladesh army and served as president of Bangladesh from to A meeting of opposites, a combination of calculated indifference, humanistic compassion, and poetic fatalism that made him stand out as a modern-day Machiavellian prince of the Third WorldHussain Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh epitomized both ability and ineptitude of leadership character and effectiveness.

Hussain muhammad ershad son of citation

If he ushered in political stability and increased developmental activities, he was also perceived as installing a variety of politico-economic corruption schemes. In spite of a series of politically instigated and enforced general strikes he managed to maintain himself in power for eight years.

He graduated, however, from Dhaka University, the premier university of then East Bengal eastern part of Pakistan; later to be called East Pakistan in In he was commissioned into the Pakistani army, unusual for a budding poet with a university degree, since a military career was generally regarded by Bengali intellectuals as not worth pursuing.

However, due credit goes to a few Bengali college-educated young men like Ershad who understood the importance of a career in the army, which historically has controlled the allocation of resources in most underdeveloped countries.