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'''Jalaluddin Abdur Rahim''' ([[Urdu language|Urdu:]] جلال الدين عبدالرحيم; [[Bengali language|Bengali:]] জালালুদ্দিন আবদুর রহিম; also known as '''J. A. Rahim''') (27 July 1906<ref>{{cite book |title=The International Who's Who |date=1974 |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-0-900362-72-9 |pages=1416 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsnwF5v_RO0C&q=Jalaludin+Abdur+Rahim+27+July+1906 |language=en}}</ref> – 1977) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] communist and [[political philosopher]] who was renowned as one of the founding members of the [[Pakistan People's Party]]—a [[democratic socialist]] political party.<ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/1203155 Smokers' Corner: Bhutto's ideologue: friend, mentor, enemy] Dawn (newspaper), Updated 30 August 2015, Retrieved 29 December 2017</ref> Rahim was also the first [[Secretary-General]] of the Pakistan People's Party, served as the first [[Minister of Defence Production|minister of production]]. A Bengali civil servant, Rahim was a philosopher who politically guided [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], serving as his mentor, and had helped Bhutto navigate through the minefield of bureaucratic establishment when Ayub Khan had taken Bhutto into his cabinet.<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York">{{cite web|last=Dr. S. Akhtar Ehtisham|title=The Left in Pakistan|url=http://pakistanlink.org/Commentary/2011/Apr11/01/01.HTM|work=Dr. S. Akhtar Ehtisham|publisher=Pakistan Link (weekly newspaper), Anaheim, California|access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> Rahim also guided Bhutto after Bhutto was deposed as [[Foreign Minister of Pakistan|Foreign Minister]], critically guiding Bhutto to take down the once US-sponsored dictatorship of [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]].<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York"/>

Educated at the [[University of Dhaka]] where Rahim received double BSc in [[Political Science]] and Philosophy after writing and publishing the brief thesis on [[Nietzsche and Philosophy|Nietzsche Philosophy]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005">{{cite book|last=Khan, Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Air Staff of PAF|first=Air Marshal Asghar|title=We've learnt nothing from history: Pakistan: politics and military power|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press, 2005|location=Oxford, England, United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-19-597883-4|pages=305|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTxuAAAAMAAJ&q=We%27ve+learnt+nothing+from+history:+Pakistan:+politics+and+military+power}}</ref>  Later, Rahim attended [[Calcutta University]], receiving a LLB degree in [[Law and Justice]]. Rahim began his political activism in [[Pakistan Movement]],<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> serving as its [[:Category:Pakistan Movement activists|activist]] in [[East Bengal]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> His father, [[Abdur Rahim (judge)|Justice Abdur Rahim]] also had served as a senior associate judge at the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/>

Rahim earned public notability after his name was announced as a Bengali member of delegation of Pakistan Peoples Party to launch a negotiation with [[Awami League]] party under [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]].<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 19th February, 2012">{{cite news|last=Shaikh Aziz|title=A leaf from history: Operation Searchlight|url=http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/19/a-leaf-from-history-operation-searchlight.html|newspaper=Dawn Newspapers, 19 February 2012|date=19 February 2012|access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> In 1970, Rahim along with [[Ghulam Mustafa Khar]], returned to [[West Pakistan]], telling Bhutto that the "meeting with Mujib was of no use".<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 19th February, 2012"/> After the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971|1971 war]], Rahim stayed in what remained of [[Pakistan]], governing the [[Law Minister of Pakistan|Law ministry]], [[Ministry of Justice (Pakistan)|Justice minister]], and the [[Planning Commission (Pakistan)|Township planning and agrovilles]]. In 1972, Rahim was appointed as the first [[Minister of Defence Production]] which he governed until 1974.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

He was appointed Pakistan Ambassador to France by Bhutto just to get him out of the way and away from Pakistani politics. But he returned to Pakistan unscheduled.<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York"/>  Rahim was then tortured by the members of the secret police, the [[Federal Security Force]] (FSF), and was thrown into jail in 1976.<ref name=Dawn/><ref name="The Nation">{{cite web|last=Zaidi|first=Abbas|title=Whose Pakistan People's Party?|url=http://www.gowanusbooks.com/party.htm|work=Abbas Zaidi|publisher=The Nation|access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, he was released. Later after Bhutto had formally issued an apology to him, he again left for [[France]] to complete his tenure as ambassador.<ref name=Dawn/> Some people say that Bhutto, during his final days, regretted his fall-out with his former mentor, J. A. Rahim.<ref name=Dawn/>

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