Mohammad Mosaddak Ali: Difference between revisions

'''Mohammad Mosaddak Ali''' (born 7 April 1960),<ref name=ntv /> also known as '''Phalu''', is a [[Bangladesh]]i entrepreneur and a politician<ref name="division">{{cite news |title=Falu stripped of division for hospital meet |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=66665 |access-date=22 September 2011 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=8 December 2008}}</ref> who was a former [[Jatiyo Sangshad|parliamentarian]] from [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP).<ref name=mp>{{cite web |title=List of Members of 8th Parliament of Bangladesh Jatiyo Sangsad |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/M_P%20List-300.pdf |website=Bangladesh Parliament |access-date=22 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812083740/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/M_P%20List-300.pdf |archivedate=12 August 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> He served as the political secretary to the [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] [[Begum Khaleda Zia]] between 2001 and 2004.<ref name=detained>{{cite web |title=NDI Election Watch Bangladesh |date=11 February 2007 |issue=4 |pages=2 |url=http://www.ndi.org/files/2117_bd_watch4_021107_0.pdf |website=National Democratic Institute for International Affairs |access-date=18 May 2016}}</ref> He was responsible for building special relations and partnership for development between the government and the private sector that is interested in investing in new and highly potential industrial sectors, and introducing new products and services to local industries, at a time when Bangladesh's economic growth accelerated. In 2003, Ali launched Bangladesh's first automation-based private satellite television station [[NTV (Bangladesh)|NTV]]. He also founded another satellite channel [[RTV (Bangladesh)|RTV]] and Bengali daily newspaper ''[[Amar Desh]]''. He is the founding President of Association of Television Channel Owners (ATCO).<ref>{{cite web |title=Association of Television Channel Owners (ATCO) |url=http://www.bd-directory.com/Association_of_Television_Channel_Owners_Bangladesh.html |website=bd-directory.com}}</ref>