Advisers to interim govt named; two from students

The advisers to the interim government, led by Nobel Laureate economist Dr Muhammad Yunus, have been named.

Of the advisers, two are coordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. They are Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan.

The list of other advisers is as follows:

1. Saleh Uddin Ahmed (Former Bangladesh Bank governor)
2. Dr Asif Nazrul (Professor of Dhaka University)
3. Adilur Rahman Khan (Secretary of the human rights organisation Odhikar)
4. AF Hassan Ariff (Former caretaker government adviser and attorney general)
5. Touhid Hossain (Former foreign secretary)
6. Syeda Rizwana Hasan (Supreme Court lawyer and chief executive of the Bangladesh Environment Lawyers’ Association)
7. Md Nahid Islam (coordinator of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement)
8. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan (coordinator of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement)
9. Brigadier General (rtd) M Sakhawat Hossain (Security analyst)
10. Supradip Chakma (chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board)
11. Farida Akhter (Executive director of UBINIG - Policy Research For Development Alternative)
12. Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy (Former director of National Institute of Mental Health & Hospital)
13. A F M Khalid Hasan (Former Nayeb-e-Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam)
14. Nurjahan Begum (former managing director of Grameen Bank)
15. Sharmin Murshid (Chief executive of non-government organisation Brotee)
16. Farooq-E-Azam (Representative of the Islamic scholars)
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The advisers will take oath at 8:30pm this night, according to Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman.