A. F. Hassan Ariff is a Bangladeshi lawyer, former

Attorney General of Bangladesh Attorney may refer to: * Lawyer ** Attorney at law, in some jurisdictions * Attorney, one who has power of attorney * ''The Attorney'', a 2013 South Korean film See also * Attorney general, the principal legal officer of (or advisor to) a gove ...

and Advisor of Caretaker Government led by

Fakhruddin Ahmed Fakhruddin Ahmed (born 1 May 1940) is a Bangladeshi economist, civil servant, and a former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank. On 12 January 2007, he was appointed Chief Adviser (Head of the Government) of the non-p ...

Career

Ariff was the Attorney General for Bangladesh from October 2001 to 28 April 2005. He resigned from his post reportedly over his failure to support pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers in the Supreme Court Bar Association and Bangladesh Bar Council's cancellation of the license of a pro-BNP Bangladesh High Court judge who used fraudulent credentials. He founded AF Hassan Ariff & Associates in the 1970s. From January 2008 to January 2009 he was Law Adviser to the Caretaker Government.

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