Former Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed has passed away. He breathed his last on Sunday evening while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the capital (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Raji’un).
His son, Barrister Mahbub Shafique, said that he was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after his condition deteriorated. He died around 5:30 PM on Sunday. He was 89 years old.
Barrister Shafique Ahmed served as the Law Minister of Bangladesh from January 2009 to mid-January 2014. He held the position as a technocrat minister (not an elected Member of Parliament).
A distinguished legal figure, he was one of the senior-most lawyers of the Supreme Court. Born in Cumilla in 1937, he obtained his LL.M from King’s College London and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1967.
He also served as the Vice Chairman of the Bangladesh Bar Council and as President of the Supreme Court Bar Association.
He is survived by two sons and a daughter.
