Nizamuddin Ahmed


Nizamuddin Ahmed was born in Munshiganj in 1929. He was a journalist.
He passed B.A (Hons) and M.A in Economics from Dhaka University
in 1959. Later he joined Pakistan Press International. He became
the editor of PPI in 1969 and was promoted to the rank of general
manager.
Nizamuddin Ahmed was an ardent supporter of the liberation war
of Bangladesh. He used to send news items on the atrocities
of the Pakistani
forces to various foreign news media. He had taken New York
Times journalist McBrown to a guerrilla camp to collect authentic
news.
He provided BBC with authentic news under strict censorship.
For this reason he was taken to General Rao Forman Ali's
office on
two occasions.
On 12 December 1971, Nizamuddin was taking his lunch when
members of Al Badar picked him up from his residence. His
body was never
found.