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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi
| native_name = ফেরদৌস আহমদ কোরেশী
| native_name_lang = bn
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| office = President of [[Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)|Progressive Democratic Party]]
| term_start = 7 June 2007
| term_end = 31 August 2020
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|01|14}}{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
| birth_place = [[Chittagong]], [[East Bengal]], [[British Raj]] (now [[Bangladesh]]){{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|08|31|1941|01|14}}
| death_place = [[Dhaka Cantonment]]
| nationality = {{Plainlist|
* [[British-Indian]] (1941-1948)
* [[Pakistani]] (1948-1971)
* [[Bangladeshi]] (1971-2020)
}}
| party = [[Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)|Progressive Democratic Party]]
| otherparty = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (until 2007)
| spouse = Nilufar Panna Qureshi
}}
'''Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi''' ({{lang-bn|ফেরদৌস আহমদ কোরেশি}}; 1941-2020) was a [[Bangladeshi]] politician and chairman of the [[Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)|Progressive Democratic Party]].<ref name="pa31Aug2020">{{cite news |title=PDP chairman Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi no more |url=https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/ferdous-ahmed-qureshi-passes-away |work=Prothom Alo |date=31 August 2020}}</ref>

==Career==
Qureshi served as president of the student political organization [[Bangladesh Chhatra League|East Pakistan Chhatra League]] from 1967 to 1968.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Amin-al-Zaman |date=2004 |title=Party Factionalism in Bangladesh: A Case Study of the Awami League (1971-97) |type=PhD |publisher=Aligarh Muslim University |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144509351.pdf |page=227}}</ref>

During the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] he edited the ''Daily Deshbangla'' newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi passes away |url=https://www.bssnews.net/?p=446663 |work=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha |date=31 August 2020}}</ref> After the war, he led a faction of the Jatiya Janata Party. The party merged with the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP) in May 1980, and Qureshi became joint secretary general of the BNP.<ref name="pa31Aug2020" /><ref>{{cite journal |last=Haque |first=Azizul |date=February 1981 |title=Bangladesh in 1980: Strains and Stresses -- Opposition in the Doldrums |journal=Asian Survey |volume=21 |issue=2 |page=195 |jstor=2643764}}</ref>

In 2004 he formed the Green Party of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi Forms Green Party in Bangladesh |url=http://www.voabangla.com/a/a-16-a-2004-07-31-2-ferdous-94369804/1387903.html |language=bn |date=2004-07-31 |work=VOA |access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref> During the rule of the caretaker government from 2007 to 2009 he called for the formation of alternate parties to be created in Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview With BNP Leader Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi |url=http://www.voabangla.com/a/a-16-2007-06-08-voa3-94413264/1393621.html |language=bn |work=VOA |access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref>

He formed the [[Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)|Progressive Democratic Party]] in July 2007.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lansford |first=Tom |date=2014 |title=Political Handbook of the World 2014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iC_VBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA116 |publisher=CQ Press |pages=116 |isbn=9781483386263}}</ref> He joined the Jatiya Jukta Front, an alliance of political parties to compete in the parliamentary elections in 2008.<ref>{{cite news |title=PDP joins Jukta Front |url=http://bdnews24.com/politics/2008/11/30/pdp-joins-jukta-front |newspaper=bdnews24.com |access-date=2017-02-13}}</ref> The alliance broke up in the same year.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rahman |first=Syedur |date=2010 |title=Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJfcCPUr0OoC&pg=PA160 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |pages=160 |isbn=9780810874534}}</ref> He was the chairman of the PDP until his death.<ref name="do31Aug2020">{{cite news |title=Ex-DUCSU VP Ferdous Qureshi passes away |url=https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=272627 |work=The Daily Observer |date=31 August 2020}}</ref>

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>Dominus Moravian at 15:56, 31 January 2021