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{{short description|Bangladeshi freedom fighter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Faizur Rahman Ahmed<br/>ফয়েজুর রহমান আহমেদ
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|02|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kutubpur, [[Netrokona]], [[East Bengal]] (now [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1971|05|05|1921|02|21|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Pirojpur]]
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| spouse = Ayesha Foyez
| children = 6, including:<br/>[[Humayun Ahmed]]<br/>[[Muhammad Zafar Iqbal]]<br/>[[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]]
| awards= [[Independence Day Award]] (2017)
}}

'''Faizur Rahman Ahmed''' ({{lang-bn|ফয়েজুর রহমান আহমেদ}}; February 21, 1921 – May 5, 1971) was a police officer and a freedom fighter of the 1971 [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. He was killed by Pakistani military personnel during the war.<ref name="pa20Mar2010">{{cite news |script-title=bn:বাবার কবর |language=bn |url=http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/news/50106 |newspaper=Prothom Alo |date=March 20, 2010 |access-date=2015-01-07}}</ref> He was given the [[Independence Day Award]] posthumously by the [[Government of Bangladesh]] in 2017.

He is well known for being the father of veteran [[Bangladeshi]] writer [[Humayun Ahmed]].

==Early life==
Ahmed was born on February 21, 1921 in Kutubpur village of [[Netrokona]] district of Bangladesh, which was then a part of [[British Empire]].<ref name="pa20Mar2010"/> His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife.

==Education and career==
There was no school in Rahman's village and he had to move to somewhere else for his primary study.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ittefaq.com.bd/print-edition/others/2014/11/16/14950.html|script-title=bn:এমপিওভুক্ত হয়নি হুমায়ূনের স্বপ্নের স্কুল|work=Daily Ittefaq |date=November 16, 2014 |language=bn |access-date=2015-01-07}}</ref> He completed his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1943.<ref name="Rokomari.Com">{{cite web|url=http://www.rokomari.com/book/3975 |script-title=bn:জীবন যে রকম- আয়েশা ফয়েজ |publisher=Rokomari.Com |language=bn |access-date=2015-01-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110054326/http://www.rokomari.com/book/3975 |archive-date=2015-01-10 }}</ref> After completing his BA, he joined a primary school as a teacher. He joined the police in 1948. He was pasted to [[Sylhet]] as a Sub-Inspector of Police and later posted to [[Dinajpur]], [[Panchagarh]], [[Rangamati]], [[Bandarban]], [[Chittagong]], [[Bogra]], [[Comilla]] and [[Pirojpur]].<ref name="Rokomari.Com" />

He was promoted to Inspector while he was in Bogra. He was promoted as a [[Deputy Superintendent of Police]] and posted to Comilla. He joined as the Sub-Divisional Police Officer in Pirojpur which was then a sub-division of [[East Pakistan]] and participated in the [[Liberation War of Bangladesh]] in 1971.<ref name="Amarboi.Com">{{cite web|url=http://www.amarboi.com/2011/12/jochna-o-jononir-golpo-by-humayun-ahmed.html|script-title=bn:জোছনা ও জননীর গল্প- হুমায়ূন আহমেদ|publisher=Amarboi|language=bn |access-date=2015-01-07}}</ref> He was also a writer.

==Personal life==

Faizur Rahman was married to Ayesha Faiz on February 8, 1944. His first son [[Humayun Ahmed]] nicknamed Kajal was born in 1948 in his in-law's house of Mohongonj, Netrokona when he started his career as a police in Sylhet. His first daughter Sufia Haider Shefali, and another son [[Muhammad Zafar Iqbal]], second daughter Momtaz Shahid Shikhu and last son [[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]] were born in Sylhet. His last daughter Rukhsana Ahmed was born in Bandarban.<ref name=palo>{{cite news |script-title=bn:হুমায়ূনের কবরে স্বজনেরা|language=bn |url=http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-12-05/news/283390|date=August 24, 2012 |newspaper=Prothom Alo |access-date=2012-12-13}}</ref><ref name="Rokomari.Com" />

==Role in Liberation War==

Faizur Rahman Ahmed joined as a Sub-Divisional Police Officer in [[Pirojpur]]. He experienced the disdain of the rulers of [[West Pakistan]] after the [[1970 Bhola cyclone]] that affected his area too.<ref name="Rokomari.Com" /> Later when the [[Pakistan Army]] cracked down on [[Bangladeshis]] in [[Dhaka]] on March 25 he decided to join the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. On March 27, when he heard the declaration of independence by [[Ziaur Rahman]] on behalf of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman he distributed around 200 rifles from the armory of Police to the common people as a preparation for the Bangladesh Liberation War.<ref name="Amarboi.Com" />

==Death==

Pakistan Army on their arrival at Pirojpur learnt about the stance of Faizur Rahman on Bangladesh Liberation War. They called him in the name of a meeting with the help of some police officials who were supporting the Pakistan Army and shot him dead at the bank of the river Baleshwar on May 5, 1971.<ref name="Amarboi.Com" />

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[[Category:Family of Humayun Ahmed]]
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[[Category:Mukti Bahini personnel]]

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