[1] He was the founding member and secretary of the National Union Committee (NUC), a non-sectarian and pan-Arab independence group established in Bahrain in 1954.

[5] Al Bakir was employed at the Bahrain Petroleum Company in 1936 and then worked in Dubai, Qatar and in some African countries.

[2] During this period he also visited various regions, including Zanzibar, Kenya and East Africa where he observed the effects of the British colonial policies which were very different from those in the Gulf states.

[2] In a meeting of the Bahraini political activists led by Al Bakir it was decided to launch a nationalist journal, Sawt al-Bahrain, which laid the basis of High Executive Committee.

[7] Al Bakir published articles in Sawt al-Bahrain using a pseudonym, Ibn Taymiyyah.

[12] Al Bakir and others made an application to the Supreme Court of St Helena and to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to use the habeas corpus which was admitted.

[3] There he published a book entitled min al-bahrain ila al-manfa~Sant Hilanah (Arabic: From Bahrain to Exile in 'Saint Helena') in 1965.