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AF Hassan Ariff, adviser to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism and Ministry of Land, has passed away.
The adviser breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka on Friday. He was 85.
According to UNB, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, his personal secretary, said that Ariff collapsed while having lunch at home. Then he was rushed to the hospital where doctors confirmed he had suffered a cardiac arrest.
The civil aviation and tourism ministry's Public Relations Officer, Mahbub Rahman Tuhin, said the adviser was pronounced dead at 3:35 pm.
The senior Supreme Court lawyer was born in Kolkata in 1941. He completed his secondary and higher secondary education at Kolkata's St Xavier’s College. He then graduated with a bachelor’s degree and an LLB from the University of Calcutta, said bdnews24.com.
In 1967, after enrolling as a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court, he moved to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In 1970, he became a registered lawyer at the Dhaka High Court.
Ariff held several key legal positions throughout his career. Under military strongman HM Ershad, he served as assistant attorney general from April 1982 to August 1985 and as deputy attorney general from August 1985 to March 1996. He later served as attorney general during the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami coalition government, from October 2001 to April 2005.
From January 2008 to January 2009, he acted as law adviser to the caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed. He was also a panel member of the Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre.