[1] He was chairman of the editorial board of The Daily Ittefaq, whose building was shelled and completely demolished on 25 March 1971 by the Pakistan Army.

[4] Hosein was elected to the parliament in 1973 from Pirojpur constituency as a member of Bangladesh Awami League[4] headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who eventually became the prime minister.

Hosein along with other members of the Democratic League were subsequently jailed for three months by Major General Ziaur Rahman after trying to form an opposition platform to challenge BNP in the upcoming polls.

In October 2018, Hosein was arrested as part of a political drive against the dissident publisher in a defamation case filed by a third party with a Rangpur court.

Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib and members of his family in a bloody and brutal coup conducted by few junior active and former military officers, all private newspapers including The Daily Ittefaq were returned to their owners on 24 August 1975.