Tara was born in 1939 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Farhadnagar in Sonagazi, Feni, then part of the Noakhali district of the Bengal Presidency.

Tara started his political career while studying at Chittagong College.

[1] Tara was involved in the 1969 mass movement in East Pakistan and actively supported the Mukti Bahini during Bangladesh Liberation War.

He established Mahbubul Huq High School in his village Faradnagar.

[5] Tara died at National University Hospital at Singapore on 3 June 2014; he was suffering from lung problems.