[1] He was selected as an adviser of the caretaker government of Bangladesh under President Iajuddin Ahmed and resigned after about a month with three other advisers Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, Akbar Ali Khan and Sultana Kamal.
According to Sheikh Hasina, they failed to discharge their constitutional responsibilities in the name of crackdown on corruption.
He served as Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Pakistan from February 1987 to October 1991.
[3] Sami became the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to India 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.