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|name=Muhammad Shamsul Huq
|image =Muhammad Shamsul Huq.jpg
|native_name=মুহাম্মদ শামসুল হক
|native_name_lang=bn
|birth_date={{birth date|1912|10|12|df=y}}
|birth_place=Pashchimgaon, [[Laksam Upazila|Laksam]], [[Meghna Division|Tipperah District]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]]
|office=[[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Dhaka]]
|term_start=23 September 1975
|term_end=1 February 1976
|predecessor=[[Abdul Matin Chowdhury]]
|successor=[[Fazlul Halim Chowdhury]]
|office1=Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Rajshahi]]
|term_start1=1965
|term_end1=1969
|predecessor1=[[Momtazuddin Ahmed]]
|successor1=[[Syed Sajjad Hussain]]
| office2= [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Foreign Minister of Bangladesh]]
| term_start2= November 1975
| term_end2= March 1982
| predecessor2= [[Abu Sayeed Chowdhury]]
| successor2= [[A R Shamsud Doha]]
|alma_mater=[[Maulana Azad College|Islamia College]]<br/>[[University of Calcutta]]
|awards=[[Ekushey Padak]]
|occupation=university academic
|party=[[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
|death_place=[[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
|death_date={{death date and age|2006|2|23|1912|10|12|df=y}}
}}
'''Muhammad Shamsul Huq''' ({{lang-bn|মুহাম্মদ শামসুল হক}}; 12 October 1912 – 23 February 2006) was a Bangladeshi academic and minister. He served as an education minister in erstwhile [[East Pakistan]], and became the [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] four years after the independence of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of Former Foreign Ministers|url=http://www.mofa.gov.bd/foreign-minister|website=mofa.gov.bd|accessdate=20 August 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829193856/http://mofa.gov.bd/foreign-minister|archive-date=29 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Huq also served as [[vice-chancellor]] in both the [[University of Dhaka]] and [[University of Rajshahi]].<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia|author=[[Sirajul Islam|Islam, Sirajul]]|article=Huq, Muhammad Shamsul}}</ref> He was awarded the ''[[Ekushey Padak]]'' in 2003 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/একুশে-পদকপ্রাপ্ত-সূধীবৃন্দ|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|publisher=Government of Bangladesh |access-date=20 June 2022}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Huq was born on 12 October 1912 to a [[Bengali Muslim]] parents Karimul Huq and Mahmuda Khatun in the village of Pashchimgaon in [[Laksam Upazila|Laksam]], [[Meghna Division|Tipperah District]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal Province]]. In 1927, he passed his matriculation exam from the local Faizunnisa-Badrunnisa High School in Paschimgaon. He completed his [[Intermediate of Arts]] from [[Feni College]] in 1929. Huq earned his bachelor's in Political Economy and Political Philosophy from the [[Maulana Azad College|Islamia College]] of [[Calcutta]] in 1931. He got his master's from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1933. He also received training from the [[University of London]] from 1945 to 1946, under the Post-War Education Reforms Programme.<ref name=bpedia/>

==Career==
He served as the third vice-chancellor of the [[University of Rajshahi]] from 31 August 1965 to 4 August 1969.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of former Vice Chancellor |url=http://www.ru.ac.bd/vc/?page_id=44|website=[[University of Rajshahi]]|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> Huq then served the [[Government of Pakistan]] under General [[Yahya Khan]] as a minister in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Research until the independence of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zaman|first1=Habibuz|title=Seventy Years in a Shaky Subcontinent|date=1999|publisher=Janus Publishing Company Lim|isbn=9781857564051|page=184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phSu0SDeY0C&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque&pg=PA184|accessdate=20 August 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mustafa|first1=Sayid Ghulam|title=English Essays of Pakistan|date=1997|publisher=Ferozsons|isbn=9789690013743|page=129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-7iAAAAMAAJ&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque|accessdate=20 August 2017|language=en}}</ref>

From 23 September 1975 to 1 February 1976, he served as the fifteenth vice-chancellor of the [[University of Dhaka]].<ref>{{cite web|title=VICE-CHANCELLORS OF THE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1921 |url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/roll_of_honour |website=[[University of Dhaka]]|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> He became Bangladesh's fifth [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] in November 1975, serving this role until March 1982. From 1977 to 1978, Huq was a member of the [[President of Bangladesh]]'s advisory board. Along with President [[Ziaur Rahman]], he contributed to the formulation of the formation of the [[South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation]] (SAARC) in 1980.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahmed |first1=Zahid Shahab |year=2012 |title=Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia: The Role of SAARC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NfTsCwAAQBAJ&q=foreign+minister+Shamsul+Haque&pg=PT55 |publisher=Routledge |page=32 |isbn=978-1-4094-6769-4 |access-date=20 August 2017 |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
* ''Charging Education in England'' (1948)
* ''Compulsory Education in Pakistan'' (1954)
* ''Education and Development Strategy in South and South East Asia'' (1965)
* ''Pakistan's New Education Policy'' (1970)
* ''Education Manpower and Development in South and South East Asia'' (1976)
* "The Patterns of Education in South and South East Asia" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (New Edition)
* "Education in German Encyclopedia" ''Lexikon der Pedagogi'' (Verlag Herder)
* ''Higher Education and Employment in Bangladesh'' (co-author, 1983)
* ''South Asia Regional Co-operation: Its Underlying Concept, Problems and Promises in Future of South Asia'' (1985)
* ''Role of Education in Development based on lectures delivered at the Bangla Academy'' (1987)
* ''Bangladesh in International Politics: the Dilemmas of the Weak States'' (1993)
* ''Aid, Development and Diplomacy'' (2001)
* ''Bissho-rajniti o Bangladesh'' (2001)
* ''Bikasman Somaj o Shikhka'' (1987)<ref name=bpedia/>

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