Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi

Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi (Bengali: ফেরদৌস আহমদ কোরেশি; 1941–2020) was a Bangladeshi politician and chairman of the Progressive Democratic Party.

[1] Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi was born in 1941 to a Bengali Muslim family in Chittagong, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh).

[citation needed] His family claimed descent from the Quraysh, an Arab tribe which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of his companions belong to.

[citation needed] Qureshi served as president of the student political organization East Pakistan Chhatra League from 1967 to 1968.

[7] He joined the Jatiya Jukta Front, an alliance of political parties to compete in the parliamentary elections in 2008.