Ziaur Rahman

Ziaur Rahman

Bir Uttom

Rahman, nicknamed komol, was conceived in Gabtoli, Bogra to Mansur Rahman and Jahanara Khatun. Mansur was a physicist who had some expertise in paper and ink science and worked for an administration office at Writer's Building in Kolkata. As a youngster Rahman, Rahman was held, bashful, unobtrusively spoken, and extreme in numerous regards. He was brought at Bagbari town up in Bogra and concentrated in Bogra Zilla School.[8] He had a more youthful sibling, Ahmed Kamal (d. 2017).

In 1946, Mansur selected Rahman for a short spell in one of the main young men schools of Calcutta, Hare School, where Rahman contemplated until the disintegration of the British Empire in South Asia and making of India and Pakistan in 1947. Mansur Rahman practiced his choice to turn into a resident of a Muslim greater part Pakistan and in August 1947 moved to Karachi[10] the primary capital of Pakistan situated in Sindh, West Pakistan. Zia, at 11 years old, had become an understudy in class six at the Academy School in Karachi in 1947. Rahman spent his immature years in Karachi and by age 16 finished his auxiliary training from that School in 1952. 

In 1953, Rahman was conceded into the D.J. School in Karachi. Around the same time he joined the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul as an official cadet.

In August 1960, his marriage was masterminded to Khaleda Majumder the 15-year-old little girl of Iskandar Majumder and Taiyaba Majumder from the Feni District (some portion of then Noakhali District), in a straightforward service. Khaleda Majumder otherwise called Khaleda Zia, who later became Prime Minister of Bangladesh three times. Rahman, a chief in the then Pakistan Army who was posted around then as an Officer of the Defense Forces. His dad, Mansur Rahman couldn't go to the marriage ceremony,as he was in Karachi. Zia's mom had kicked the bucket before.

Moving on from the Pakistan Military Academy at twelfth PMA long course on 18 September 1955 in the top 10%[10] of his group, Rahman was dispatched as a second lieutenant in the Pakistan Army. In the military, he got commando preparing, turned into a paratrooper and got preparing in a unique knowledge course.

Rahman went to East Pakistan on a short visit and was struck by the negative disposition of the Bengali working class towards the military, which expended a huge piece of the nation's assets. The low portrayal of the Bengalis in the military was to a great extent due to discrimination,[10] however Rahman felt that the Bengali mentality towards the military maybe kept promising youthful Bengali from looking for military professions. As a Bengali armed force official he pushed military professions for Bengali youth. Subsequent to serving for a long time in Karachi, he was moved toward the East Bengal Regiment in 1957. He likewise worked in the military knowledge office from 1959 to 1964.

Ayub Khan's exceptionally fruitful military principle from 1958 to 1968 persuaded Rahman of the requirement for a basic change in the Bengali demeanor towards the military. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Rahman saw battle in the Khemkaran division in Punjab as the officer of an organization unit of 100–150 troopers. Rahman was granted the esteemed Hilal-I-Jur'at for valor by the Pakistan government[17] decoration, Pakistan's second most elevated military honor, and the primary Battalion of the East Bengal Regiment (EBR) under which he battled won 3 Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) awards, and 8 Tamgha-e-Jurat (Medal of Courage) decorations, for their job in the 1965 War with India.[18] In 1966, Rahman was delegated military educator at the Pakistan Military Academy, later proceeding to go to the Command and Staff College in Quetta, Pakistan, he finished a course in direction and strategic fighting. Rahman helped raise two Bengali contingents called the eighth and ninth Bengals[10] during his spell as teacher. Around a similar time, his better half Khaleda Zia, presently 24, brought forth their first youngster Tarique Rahman on 20 November 1966. Rahman joined the second East Bengal regiment as its second-in-direction at Joydebpur in Gazipur locale, close to Dhaka, in 1969, and ventured out to West Germany to get propelled military and order preparing with the German Army[16] and later put in a couple of months with the British Army.