Atiqur Rahman

Lieutenant General M Atiqur Rahman was the Bangladesh's Chief of Army Staff from 1986 to 1990.

Military career
He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Regiment of Artillery, in the then Pakistan Army. He was from the East Pakistan province of Pakistan which is now Bangladesh. Atiqur Rahman was Colonel and brigade commandar of chittagong during assasiantion of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

After Liberation of East Pakistan, the new nation – People’s Republic of Bangladesh was formed in 1971; where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed - Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army in September 1986 subsequently by the then President Hossain Mohammad Ershad.

He retired from the Bangladesh Army with full Military Honours in August 1990 and did not pursue a political career like almost every other army chiefs of the country. He was succeeded by Nuruddin Khan as appointed by President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

Later life
After retirement General Atiqur Rahman stayed away from public eye and did not pursue a political career.