Matiur Rahman or Motiur Rahman is a male Muslim given name composed of the elements Muti ', al-and Rahman meaning obedient to the Most Gracious.

* Motiur Rahman Nizami ( born 1943 ), Bangladesh politician

* Motiur Rahman Mollik ( 1950-2010 ), Bangladeshi poet

* Motiur Rahman ( politician ), Indian politician

* Motiur Rahman Nizami ( born 1943 ), a Bangladeshi politician

At the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War, Rahman supported the Pakistani state forces and denounced the Bengali nationalist struggle, joining Bengali politicians such as Nurul Amin, Golam Azam and Motiur Rahman Nizami.

He was succeeded by Motiur Rahman Nizami.

Among the prominent politicians of Mymensingh today are Cpatain ( Rtd ) Mujibur Rahman Fakir, Mr. Promod Mankhin, Principal Motiur Rahman, Mr. Mosharraf Hossain, Advocate Jahirul Huq, Dr. Amanullah etc.

Lt. Col. Motiur Rahman killed the pajama-clad President Ziaur with an automatic rifle.

On April 12, 1971, Azam and Matiur Rahman Nizami led demonstrations denouncing the independence movement as an Indian conspiracy.

Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem () ( April 14, 1969 – March 20, 2002 ), more commonly known as Emir Khattab ( also transliterated as Amir Khattab and Ameer Khattab ) meaning Commander Khattab, or Leader Khattab, and also known as Habib Abdul Rahman, was a Muslim guerilla fighter and financier working with Chechen Mujahideen in the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War.

After Khaleda Zia was detained by the caretaker government in 2007, some party members chose former finance minister Saifur Rahman as chairman and former water resources minister Major ( Rtd.

The committee chairman, the Federal Minister for Education, Fazlur Rahman, asked several poets and composers to write lyrics but none of the submitted works were deemed suitable.

* former Deputy Prime Minister Dato ' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian ministers Hishammuddin Hussein, Effendi Norwawi, Fauzi Abdul Rahman and Nazri Aziz, politician and former chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club Shahrir Samad, the Sultans of Pahang and Perak, late Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei from 1932 to 1936 and the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.

Being inspired by Ziaur Rahman, the founder chairman of the party, he entered into politics as the Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) during its early years.

Subsequently Mizaur Rahman Chowdhury and Riazuddin Ahmed ( Bhola Miah ) were nominated as acting chairman and general secretary of Janadal respectively.

Subsequently Hussain Muhammad Ershad was put under arrest and in his absence Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury took over charge of the Jatiya Party as acting chairman.

It was previously known as Jatiya Party ( Naziur ), after the late party chairman Naziur Rahman Manju.

As close fellow of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Panna Biswas of Gimadanga was selected as first chairman.

As ' ad Abdul Rahman, chairman of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, used the quote as his lede for an opinion piece about alleged Jewish control of the world media in the Gulf News of December 4, 2004.

# Khalid Rahman, Naib Qayyam, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan

Although there were two general elections, they were widely criticized by the opposition parties-BNP boycotted the election in 1986 but that election gained legitimacy as the other major opposition party Awami League founded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Jamaat-e-Islami which was resurrected by President Ziaur Rahman also participated the election.

Many of its leaders were one-time mujahidin, but the bulk of their forces were young Afghan refugees trained in Pakistani madrassas ( religious schools ), especially those run by the Jamiat-e Ulema-e Islam Pakistan, the aggressively conservative Pakistani political religious party headed by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, arch rival of Qazi Hussain Ahmad, leader of the equally conservative Jamaat-e-Islami and longtime supporter of the mujahidin.

* 1971 – The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.

On 26 March 1971, the day after the military crackdown on civilians in East Pakistan, Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh.

* 1971 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.

* 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Seventh President of Bangladesh ( d. 1981 )

* 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.

* 1920 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh ( d. 1975 )

* 1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi politician, 10th President of Bangladesh

* January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan

* March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founder of Bangladesh, first President & Prime minister of Bangladesh.

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

* March 27 – East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is repeatedly declared by Army Major ( later President of Bangladesh ) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong.

** The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Mujibnagor.

** Bangladesh freedom fighter Shiraj Shikder was killed by country's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

** Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.

* May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong.

** Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh ( d. 1975 )

Due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination, as well as economic neglect by the politically dominant West Pakistan, popular agitation led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman grew against West Pakistan, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which the Bengali people won with the support of India.

Following the recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan in 1974, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as an unanticiptable surprise, sent Shah Azizur Rahman, to lead a Bangladeshi delegation to the international meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC, now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) held in Lahore.

India also withdrew its military from the land of Bangladesh when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman requested Indira Gandhi to do so during latter's visit to Dhaka in 1972.