Abdur Raquib Khandaker was the

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Early life

Khandaker graduated from

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. He studied economics at the

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and briefly taught at Notre Dame College, Dhaka.

Career

Khandaker joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1956. Khandaker served as the Superintendent of Police in

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in 1971 during the

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. In 1974, Khandaker sustain an injury from an accident while on duty which affected him for the rest of his life. From 1976 to 1986, Khandaker served as the president of Bangladesh Football Federation. In 1976, he was the Deputy Inspector General of Police stationed in the police headquarters in Dhaka. He served as the Deputy Inspector General of Rajshahi Police range. Khandaker was the third commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. He served from 2 February 1979 to 8 February 1982. Khandaker was stationed in the Permanent mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations and was elected to the

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in 1984. He served in the Crime Prevention and Control Committee of the United Nations. Khandaker served as the Inspector General of

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from 31 December 1985 to 28 February 1990. He served under military dictator

Hussain Mohammad Ershad Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad ( bn, হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time ma ...

. In 1999, Khandaker was awarded the

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. Khandakar wrote Society Politics & Civil Order: Memoirs of the Police Chief of Bangladesh on 1 January 2002. He wrote about experiences as a Bengali officer in the Pakistan establishment and later working in independent Bangladesh. He wrote for The Daily Star.

Death

Khandaker died on 25 August 2010.

References

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