CM Shafi Sami a Bangladeshi diplomat. He was selected as an adviser of the

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of Bangladesh under President

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and resigned after about a month with three other advisers

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, Akbar Ali Khan and

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, . According to

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, they failed to discharge their constitutional responsibilities in the name of crackdown on corruption.

Early life

Sami passed his matriculation from Jamalpur Government College and intermediate exam from MC College in

Sylhet Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an ...

. He got his bachelor's and master's in physics from the

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in 1962 and 1963 respectively. He joined

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in 1966. Prior to that he also worked at

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(PAEC) and East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology for a while.

Career

Sami was the chief coordinator of the first

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summit and was selected the deputy general secretary of the summit. He also worked at the Bangladesh embassy in

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and as the Charge-de-affairs in Paris. He also worked in the

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as a residing representative. He served as Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Pakistan from February 1987 to October 1991. Sami became the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India in 1995 and remained there till 1999. During this time he played an important part in signing the Ganges Water Distribution Agreement and

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. After that, he served as the foreign secretary till 2001. During the caretaker government of 2001, he became the chief foreign secretary. Besides he was a member of the

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of the

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. He also led Bangladeshi correspondents in UN, NAM, OIC and other international conferences.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sami, Cm Shafi Living people People from Sylhet Bangladeshi diplomats University of Dhaka alumni High Commissioners of Bangladesh to India Advisors of Caretaker Government of Bangladesh Year of birth missing (living people) High Commissioners of Bangladesh to Pakistan