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Tawfique Nawaz

Tawfique Nawaz was a Bangladeshi lawyer and director of Transparency International Bangladesh.[1] He is married to Dipu Moni, who is Bangladesh's Minister of Social Welfare and Former Minister of Education, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Nawaz is a senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.[2]

Career

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Nawaz published The New International Economic Order in 1980 with the University of Michigan.[3] He was a research associate to Kamal Hossain while studying at the Wadham College, Oxford.[4][5] From 1979 to 1981, he served as a director of Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs.[6]

In 1993, Nawaz was an honorary director of Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs.[6] He was the Coordinator of Human Rights Project of Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs.[7]

Nawaz sued BRAC Bank Limited claiming BRAC as a NGO could not own a bank; the suit was dismissed by the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 2001.[8][9] His co-council in the case was Advocate Mohsen Rashid.[8]

In 2007, Nawaz, along with Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, represented Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after she was arrested by the Fakhruddin Ahmed led Caretaker Government during the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis.[10] He pointed that Hasina's was being deprived of her right to a telephone under the jail code.[10]

In 2010, Nawaz accompanies Dipu Moni to an official visit to Tripura, India.[11] Nawaz represented the Bangladesh Bank and the Government of Bangladesh in court case that sought to remove Yunus from the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, in 2011.[8][12] He appeared as friend of the court in the 2011 case against staff of Bangladesh Biman on contempt charges after they refused to upgrade the economy seat of Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik to business class.[13] He was critical of the report, "Biman's flight delayed for altercation on plane", by The Daily Star which he claimed had damaged the judiciary.[13]

Nawaz led the Bangladesh Government claim against Niko Resources seeking compensation for the Tengratila Gas Field explosion.[14] In 2013 Niko tried unsuccessfully to get the case dismissed through the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.[14] He sought 106 million dollar is damages from Niko on behalf of Petrobangla.[15]

In 2014, Nawaz represented Dhaka Education Board and Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee under the Ministry of Education in a lawsuit by a student asking for a recheck of her exam papers.[16] In April 2014, he and his fellow lawyer SM Munir, were summoned by the High Court who found their comments in a reply to the student as contemptuous of the court.[16] The court asked them why it should pursue contempt charges against them.[16]

Nawaz wrote the entry for Alaap, a traditional form of music in Bangladesh, in Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh.[17] He is a trustee board member of Transparency International Bangladesh.[18] According to Zafar Sobhan, the editor of Dhaka Tribune, Nawaz is responsible for driving a wedge between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Nobel Laurate Professor Muhammad Yunus.[8] Sobhan described as "a pettifogging journeyman advocate of little distinction" who had failed the bar multiple times trying to becoming a barrister.[8]

Nawaz is an executive committee member of Shiropa Development Society.[19]

Personal life

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Nawaz is married to Dipu Moni, Minister of Education.[20] He and his son, Tawquir Rashaad Nawaz, performed Alaap on Raga Adbhut Durga at a celebration of the 100th birth anniversary of Pannalal Ghosh and held at the Bangladesh National Museum.[21]

Nawaz's brother, Taimor Nawaz, is a doctor.[20] Taimor treated Nawaz after he suffered a stroke on 17 July 2019.[20] In August 2019, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Nawaz at United Hospital.[22] Madinatul Ulum Hafezia Madrasa in Gulistan organized special prayers for his recovery.[23]

Nawaz's family is from Midnapore in West Bengal and he still has many relatives there.[24] Xulhaz Mannan, is the cousin of Dipu Muni.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "Minister Dipu Moni's husband Tawfique Newaz hospitalised". Daily Sun. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  2. ^ "List of Senior Advocates" (PDF). supremecourt.gov.bd/. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. ^ Nawaz, Tawfique (1980). The New International Economic Order: A Bibliography. F. Pinter. ISBN 978-0-903804-51-6.
  4. ^ Hossain, Kamal (1979). Law and Policy in Petroleum Development: Changing Relations Between Transnationals and Governments. Nichols Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-89397-056-7.
  5. ^ Sengupta, Arjun (1980). Commodities, Finance and Trade: Issues in North South Negotiations. Frances Pinter. pp. vii. ISBN 978-0-903804-49-3.
  6. ^ a b "Directors". biliabd.org. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  7. ^ Affairs, United States Congress House Committee on Foreign; States, United (1994). South Asia Policy: Roundtable Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Its Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, September 21, 1994. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-16-046238-2.
  8. ^ a b c d e "A confederacy of dunces". Sunday Guardian. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  9. ^ "BRAC and others Vs. Professor Mozaffar Ahmed and others, 54 DLR (AD) (2002) 36 - The Lawyers and Jurists". lawyersnjurists.com. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  10. ^ a b "Hasina demands right to talk on phone from jail". The Daily Star. 2007-09-09. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  11. ^ "Bangla minister in India to boost trade with NE". The Assam Tribune. 2010-09-15. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  12. ^ "Yunus loses plea, seeks review". The Daily Star. 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  13. ^ a b "Biman boss, three others say sorry". The Daily Star. 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  14. ^ a b "Niko fails to dodge it". The Daily Star. 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  15. ^ "Chance to realise $106m from Niko brightened". The Daily Star. 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  16. ^ a b c "HC summons Dipu Moni's husband". The Daily Star. 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  17. ^ "Alaap". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  18. ^ "Ali Imam Majumder made TIB Trustee Board member". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  19. ^ "Shiropa | Welcome to NGOKushtia.net". Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  20. ^ a b c "Minister Dipu Moni's husband lawyer Tawfique Nawaz is severely ill". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  21. ^ Alom, Zahangir (2011-08-03). "Pannalal Ghosh's birth centenary". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  22. ^ "Hasina visits her military secretary, Dipu Moni's husband at hospital". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  23. ^ "Doa mahfil held seeking early recovery of Dipu Moni's husband". UNB. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  24. ^ Khanra, Sujay. "Bangladeshi foreign minister Dipu Moni meets relatives in Midnapore | Kolkata News". The Times of India. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  25. ^ Farrell, Paul (2016-04-25). "Xulhaz Mannan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
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