Akbar Kabir

Akber Kabir (5 January 1915-17 October 2002) was a Bangladeshi social worker and an adviser for the information ministry in the advisory council of presidents Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem and Major General Ziaur Rahman from September 1976 to October 1977. He was also the brother of former Indian Bengali education minister Humayun Kabir and Congress politician Jehangir Kabir as well as the father-in-law of renowned Bangladeshi barrister Nazmul Huda,

Education Kabir completed his M.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1935.

Personal life Kabir was born on 5 January 1915 in Kamarpur upazilla of Faridpur, Bengal Presidency. He also had two granddaughters through Sigma, Antara Selima Huda and Srabanti Amina Huda.

Death He died at 10.30 pm BST on Thursday, 17 October 2002 due to old age at the age of 87. He was buried in his family graveyard in Faridpur following Friday prayers the next day.