CM Shafi Sami a Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i diplomat. He was selected as an adviser of the caretaker government

Caretaker government

Caretaker government is a type of government that rules temporarily. A caretaker government is often set up following a war until stable democratic rule can be restored, or installed, in which case it is often referred to as a provisional government...

 of Bangladesh under President Iajuddin Ahmed

Iajuddin Ahmed

-Early life:Ahmed was born in Bikrampur of Dhaka District, erstwhile Bengal province, British India . As the son of Moulvi Ibrahim Mia, Ahmed obtained his B.Sc. and M.S. at the University of Dhaka in 1952 and 1954 respectively and later received his M.S. and Ph.D...

 and resigned after a series of disagreement with him. Three other advisers Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury is a retired Bangladeshi army officer and Lieutenant General of the Bangladesh Army. He became the Chief of Army staff in 2002 and after retirement from the Army, became an adviser of the interim caretaker government in October 2006...

, Akbar Ali Khan and Sultana Kamal

Sultana Kamal

Sultana Kamal is a Bangladeshi human rights worker and politician. She was an adviser to the interim Caretaker government of Bangladesh under chief adviser and president Iajuddin Ahmed. She along with three other advisers resigned after a series of disagreements which included army deployment in...

 also accompanied him with this resignation. His actions and that of the three other advisers sparked the fall of the caretaker government and the ensuing crackdown on corruption.

Early life

Sami passed his matriculation from Jamalpur Government College

Jamalpur Government College

Jamalpur Government College is an institution of higher education in Bangladesh. It is located in Jamalpur town....

. He also got his I.Sc. from MC College in Sylhet

Sylhet

Sylhet , is a major city in north-eastern Bangladesh. It is the main city of Sylhet Division and Sylhet District, and was granted metropolitan city status in March 2009. Sylhet is located on the banks of the Surma Valley and is surrounded by the Jaintia, Khasi and Tripura hills...

. He got admitted into the physics department of Dhaka University in 1957. In 1962 he received first class on honors and achieved the same feat one year later in masters. He joined Pakistan Civil Service in 1966. Prior to that he also worked at the well known and prominent nuclear research institute, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, , is an administrative governmental and autonomous science and technology governmental department of Pakistan, responsible for development of nuclear energy and development of nuclear power sector in Pakistan...

 (PAEC) and East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology for a while.

Professional career

Sami was the chief coordinator of the first SAARC summit and was selected the deputy general secretary of the summit. He also worked at the Bangladesh embassy in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 and as the Charge-de-affairs in Paris.
He also worked in the UNESCO

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

 as a residing representative.
Shafi Sami became the Bangladeshi High Commissioner of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 in 1995 and remained there till 1999. During this time he played an important part in signing the Ganges Water Distribution Agreement and Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord

Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord is a political agreement and peace treaty signed between the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti , the political organisation that controlled the Shanti Bahini militia...

.
After that he served as the foreign secretary till 2001. During the caretaker government of 2001 he became the chief foreign secretary. Besides he was a member of the International Civil Service Commission of United Nations

United Nations

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. He also led Bangladeshi correspondents in UN, NAM, OIC and other international conferences.