Kazi Aref Ahmed (Bengali: কাজী আরেফ আহমেদ) was the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and one of the organizers of Bangladesh Liberation war.
[2] Ahmed was a founding member of the Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad along with ASM Abdur Rob, Serajul Alam Khan, and Shahjahan Siraj in the 1960s.
[3][4] They wanted Bangladesh to become an independent country and joined Awami League to work towards that goal.
[2] On 2 March 1971, he along with other student leaders raised the flag of independent Bangladesh in Dhaka University.
The rally was attacked by Purbo Banglar Communist Party, who killed Ahmed and four other politicians of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.