Abul Fateh (16 May 1924 – 4 December 2010)
was a Bangladeshi diplomat,
statesman and
Sufi who was one of the founding fathers of
South Asian diplomacy after the
Second World War
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, having been the founder and inaugural Director of Pakistan's
Foreign Service Academy
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and subsequently becoming Bangladesh's first
Foreign Secretary when it gained its independence in 1971. He was Bangladesh's senior-most diplomat both during the 'Liberation War' period of its
Mujibnagar
Mujibnagar ( bn, মুজিবনগর), formerly known as Baidyanathtala (Boiddonathtola) and Bhoborpara, is a town in the Mujibnagar Upazila of Bangladesh. The Provisional Government of Bangladesh was formed on 10 April 1971, however, swor ...
administration as well as in peacetime.
A former
Carnegie Fellow
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in International Peace and
Rockefeller Foundation Scholar and Research Fellow,
he has been described as "soft-spoken and scholarly" and "a lesson for all diplomats".
Exceptionally for a Bengali-born diplomat, he rose to the most senior ranks of public service in Pakistan.
Then at the time Bangladesh began seeking independence, he spectacularly defected and changed sides to support the fledgling country of Bangladesh – a major propaganda coup and morale boost for the cause of Bangladeshi liberation given his stature in Pakistan's hierarchy. Fateh was automatically the highest-ranked and most senior
foreign service
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officer in the new country. His story was later documented in a ''
National Geographic'' documentary, ''Running for Freedom''.
Following his death he was described by a former colleague and successor Foreign Secretary as "a great and brave freedom fighter" who was at the same time "remarkably reticent about his contributions", a "soft-spoken and scholarly diplomat" whose service to the Bangladeshi independence cause at a critical period was "invaluable" and "a lesson for all diplomats. His outstanding professional skill and deep sense of patriotism should be a shining example".
The
Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
Dipu Moni
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talked about his "contribution to self-right movements of people, country's independence struggle and managing assistance to war-ravaged country after independence."
She also cited his "outstanding career", stating that he would be "always remembered for his contribution to the country's liberation" war.
Although rarely in the public eye, Fateh was a distinguished figure in the history of post-
Second World War
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,
post-colonial
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diplomacy
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, a public servant who was a leading light behind the scenes within the
Developing World and
Non Aligned Conference, including the
Commonwealth, with a significant tour of duty in Washington D.C. at the height of the
Cold War. In the
West
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too Fateh came to be held in the highest regard, a rare joint
U.S.
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intelligence assessment remarking in 1977 that he was: "very able, highly intelligent, moderate, easy to deal with, and well informed".
At the launch of his university's
South Asia
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Centre in 2015, the President and Director of the
London School of Economics
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Professor
Craig Calhoun
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included Fateh in a list of a dozen public figures of the 20th century who he felt represented "the greatest fruits" of the "close mutual relations between South Asia and the LSE".
Biography
Early life and education
Fateh was born in
Kishoreganj
Kishoreganj is a city and the headquarters of Kishoreganj District
Kishoreganj ( bn, কিশোরগঞ্জ) is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Earlier it was a Mohkuma (মহকুমা) under the Mymensingh district. It ...
on 16 May 1924 in a landowning family, to Abdul Gafur and his second wife Zohra Khatun. Fateh was a middle child, in a large family of a dozen children who survived to adulthood, while two other siblings died young. His father Abdul Gafur had attended
Presidency College, Calcutta
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, and was one of the first Muslim ''daroga'' (sheriffs) in
British India
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. Fateh's mother Zohra was the daughter of a local nobleman. Fateh passed his matriculation exams from ''Ramkrishna'' High English School in Kishorganj in 1941. After passing his Intermediate exams from
Ananda Mohan College in
Mymensingh
Mymensingh ( bn, ময়মনসিংহ) is the capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center and educational hub of north- ...
in 1943, he undertook higher studies in
English Literature at
Dhaka University (BA Honours in 1946 and
MA in 1947) where he also excelled in sport, for a time captaining the
cricket
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team and becoming the table tennis champion.
Pakistani diplomat
While teaching English Literature at Brindaban College in
Sylhet, he took the first
Foreign Service
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exams of Pakistan (1948), before teaching English Literature for a few months at Michael Madhusudhan Datta College in
Jessore
Jessore ( bn, যশোর, jôshor, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District situated in Khulna Division. It is situated in the south-western part of Bangladesh. It is the administrative centre (headquarter) of the eponymous district ...
. He joined the first batch of Pakistan Foreign Service trainees in 1949, moving to
Karachi
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. Soon after he left for training in London, which included taking a special course at the
London School of Economics
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, before he moved in 1950 to Paris to complete his training. Returning briefly to Karachi, he was sent back (1951) to Paris as
Third Secretary
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in the Pakistan Embassy.
A further posting as Third Secretary followed in
Calcutta
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(1953–1956). During this time he married, at
Rangpur on 5 January 1956, Mahfuza Banu of
Dhubri
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, Assam daughter of Shahabuddin Ahmed, a respected lawyer and Mashudaa Banu a well known social campaigner. Then promoted to
Second Secretary
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, he served in the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. from 1956 to 1960, during which time he and his wife had their two sons, one of whom,
Aladin, is a strategy consultant, academic, artist and Editor Emeritus of the Bangladeshi news organisation Bdnews24.
Fateh was a
Director
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attached to the
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in Karachi from 1960 to 1963, during which time he was founding Director of Pakistan's Foreign Service Academy in Lahore
and also went for a year and a half (1962–1963) to
Geneva
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as a
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of the
Graduate Institute of International Studies
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(''Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales'') under a
Carnegie fellowship.
Further foreign postings followed. He was First Secretary (and latterly acting chief of mission) in
Prague
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from 1965 to 1966,
Counsellor in New Delhi from 1966 to 1967, and Deputy
High Commissioner in Calcutta from 1968 to 1970. He received his first posting as ambassador, at the Pakistan Embassy in
Baghdad
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, in 1970.
Bangladeshi independence
After the Pakistani military crackdown in March 1971, Fateh received a request from a former university dormitory mate,
Syed Nazrul Islam
Syed Nazrul Islam ( bn, সৈয়দ নজরুল ইসলাম, Soiyod Nozrul Islam; 1925 – 3 November 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician and a senior leader of the Awami League. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, he was declared a ...
, now
Acting President
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in the Bangladesh
government-in-exile
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, to join the liberation struggle.
At about the same time, in July 1971, Fateh received a summons from the Pakistan Foreign Ministry to attend a conference in
Tehran
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of regional Pakistani ambassadors. He chose to take his official car ostensibly to drive to Tehran but, as he and his driver approached the
Iran
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–
Iraq
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border, he feigned chest pains and ordered the driver to return him home, where he arrived that evening. Saying that he would take a plane the next day, he dismissed the driver. That night, he fled with his wife and sons across the border into
Kuwait
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, where they were assisted by officials attached to the local Indian Embassy to take a plane to London.
The announcement of Fateh's defection to the Bangladesh cause marked the first time a full ambassador had joined the fledgling Bangladesh
diplomatic service
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. The news was received with fury by the
military regime
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The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
in
Islamabad
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, duped by what was later described as a "cool and calculated James Bond-type adventure"
and a calculated plunge into danger. It was a dramatic defection which created sensation in diplomatic circles and greatly boosted the morale of those engaged in the war of liberation. The Yahya Khan military regime in Pakistan was furious and requested the British Government to extradite Fateh from London, but the requests were rebuffed by the
British Government.
These events were chronicled in a 2003
National Geographic Channel television documentary, ''Running for Freedom.''
The Mujibnagar government made him ambassador-at-large, followed in August 1971 by the concurrent position of Advisor to the Acting President, a position he was to resign in January 1972 after the return to Bangladesh of Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman. He had a key role managing relations with the United States and India whilst heading the nascent country's diplomatic service.
As the senior-most diplomat of the Bangladesh movement in the United Nations delegation under Justice Abu Sayed Choudhury which was in New York in September 1971 to lobby for the Bangladesh cause at the General Assembly, he played a vital role in the delegation's lobbying efforts.
He was also in communication with other governments, such as the
Nixon
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administration in the United States and also with Senators, Congressmen, and high officials in the US Administration, World Bank, and IMF; he had the advantage as well of being familiar with decision-makers and the decision-making process having served as a diplomat in Washington 20 years earlier. Former colleague Syed Muazzem Ali
described him as a "soft-spoken and scholarly diplomat" who was exceptional in articulating the cause and whose contributions were invaluable. He was one of the first high officials to reach
Dhaka
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after its liberation, and was quartered with other senior officials in
Bangabhaban
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until January 1972. He was also the highest Bangladeshi official in Dhaka until the acting president and cabinet arrived after independence; on his arrival in Dhaka he was driven under escort from the airport, becoming the first civilian official to lay a wreath at the ruins of the Shaheed Minar, an act planned to mark the first presence of the government in Dhaka.
Already the effective head of the incipient
foreign service
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, he became
Foreign Secretary at the end of 1971, playing a key role
in formulating Bangladesh's foreign policy.
Bangladeshi ambassador
He then took up the position of Bangladesh's first Ambassador in Paris (1972–1976). The early part of this posting involved extensive travel in Africa to persuade African governments to recognise the independence of Bangladesh. In 1973 he represented Bangladesh at a
Commonwealth conference for
Youth
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Ministers in
Lusaka. In 1975 he went to
Morocco
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and, at a time of a shortage in supply of
phosphates
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, managed to secure a substantial phosphate shipment for Bangladesh.
In mid-1975 he was selected to be
High Commissioner in the UK, which post he took up in early 1976. His two years in London (1976–1977) saw him
Chairing the Commonwealth Conference on
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and
Development
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and the Bangladesh government approved his recommendation that
dual citizenship
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be permitted. Many people from Bangladesh were settled in the UK, whose remittances into Bangladesh were an important source of
foreign exchange
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. He pointed out that to oblige them to forgo Bangladesh citizenship if they took up the benefits of British nationality was not conducive to the continued maintenance of their ties to the
mother country
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.
His last post was as ambassador in
Algiers (1977–1982). He represented the Bangladesh government at conferences on
Namibia
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in Algiers of the United Nations (1980) and the
Non Aligned Conference (1981). He retired from that post in 1982.
Fateh became a casualty of Bangladesh's complex and shifting political landscape towards the end of his career. As he was closely identified with Bangladesh's initial, Liberation War era administration Fateh was not favoured by the military-backed regimes which followed it. Contemporary historians have characterised his Ambassadorial assignment to Algeria as a premature transfer and a virtual exile in a diplomatic post which was a relative back-water. One commentator voicing the widely held belief that Fateh was "a victim of conspiracy hatched against him by anti-liberation forces.
Retirement
Retiring in 1982, he lived with his wife Mahfuza Fateh in Dhaka for ten years before they settled in London to be near their sons.
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Death and honours at funeral
Fateh died in London of natural causes at 0745 on 4 December 2010.
A Sufi, he once cited a few of the axioms according to which he led his life: "Do not speak anything that you do not yourself know to be true." "Speak in the spirit of offering, without the need to draw attention to yourself." "You should stand up when it matters."
Fateh was buried with Bangladesh State Honours at Hendon Cemetery, London on 7 December 2010
The Bangladesh Government was represented by His Excellency the Bangladesh High Commissioner Professor Mohammad Sayeedur Rahman Khan Khan who delivered a homily which spoke of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
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's devastation at the news of Ambassador Fateh's death, conveyed the condolences of Foreign Minister Dipu Moni
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and spoke of the highest standard of public service that Mr. Fateh's conduct and career represented. In consideration of the esteem of the Bangladesh government and its people for Ambassador Fateh, the High Commissioner had personally brought the flag of Bangladesh to be draped over the coffin so that Mr. Fateh could briefly lie in state before his interring. Justice of the Supreme Court the Right Honorable Syed Refaat Ahmed also spoke at the event about Fateh's humility and self-effacement in all contexts, against the backdrop of an enormous contribution to the public and civic life of the country. A few days later at the Qul Khwani and non-denominational Sufi service on 11 December 2010, Murad Qureshi
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, Member of the London Assembly at London's City Hall, spoke, reminding those gathered that Fateh father chose to stand and be counted during the 1971 war in quite fraught circumstances. The Sufi Order established by Inayat Khan
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, whose son Vilayat Inayat Khan
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was a friend of Abul, arranged a non-denominational Sufi Service. Pir Vilayat Khan's son Pir Zia Khan sent a personal message, which also stated: "Abul Fateh Sahib has lived a life of honour and service and is a mystic in spirit"
All media in Bangladesh carried extensive notices about the death of the country's most distinguished diplomat.
Honours
* Carnegie Foundation Fellow in International Peace.
* Rockefeller Foundation Scholar
* Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee Medal, 1975
*Bangladesh Government State Honours at Funeral
See also
* History of Bangladesh
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* List of Bangladeshis
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* British Bangladeshi
British Bangladeshis ( bn, বিলাতী বাংলাদেশী, Bilatī Bangladeshī) are people of Bangladeshi origin who have attained citizenship in the United Kingdom, through immigration and historical naturalisation. The term c ...
* List of British Bangladeshis
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