Advisor Hasan Arif is no more. A.F.M. Hasan Arif, the Interim Government’s Advisor for Aviation, Tourism, and Land, passed suddenly. He died of a heart attack around 3:10 p.m. on Friday (December 20) at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka. Md. Abed Chowdhury, his Assistant Private Secretary, reported his death to the media.
Advisor Hasan Arif is no more: According to sources from LabAid Hospital’s emergency room, Hasan Arif died of a heart attack. Doctors proclaimed him dead when he arrived at the hospital.
Hasan Arif, A.F.M., was born in Kolkata in 1941. He finished his intermediate and higher secondary schooling at St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata. He later graduated and received his LLB degree from the University of Calcutta.
He began his professional career as a lawyer in the Kolkata High Court in West Bengal, India, in 1967. He later relocated to Dhaka and began practicing at the Bangladesh High Court.
A.F.M. Hasan Arif was the previous Attorney General of Bangladesh. He held this role from October 2001 to April 2005. He also worked as an advisor for the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, the Ministry of Land, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs during Fakhruddin Ahmed’s interim administration.
He also worked on offering counsel to foreign investors, construction arbitration, commercial arbitration, finance, banking, and securities disputes, corporate, commercial, and taxation issues, constitutional law, arbitration, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Advisor Hasan Arif is no more…
