Mustafa Jabbar

Mustafa Jabbar (pronounced [mostapʰa dʒɔbbar]; born 12 August 1949)[2] is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur and a former Minister of Post and Telecommunication[3] in the Government of Bangladesh.

[10] He is a champion of Bangla Bhasha Procholon Ain, 1987, and has been praised for promoting the Bengali language in the digital media.

He was born on Ashuganj Upazila in Brahmanbaria District to Abdul Jabbar Talukdar and Rabeya Khatun.

[16] Jabbar founded Ananda Computers, best known for falsely claiming the Bangla keyboard Bijoy invented by Pappana.

[16] Jabbar started a venture involving computers and IT in 1987 and launched the Bijoy Bangla Keyboard and Software on 16 December 1988.

[17] Jabbar sat on several government committees on ICT affairs, including the prime minister–formed Digital Bangladesh Taskforce.

[24] Jabbar's recent decisions as minister of Post and Telecommunication, such as censorship, social site monitoring and blocking of PUBG, Reddit along with popular web services like Bitly URL shortener, issuu.com, medium.com, cloud file sharing website mediafire.com, Change.org, Russian social media website VK, Imgur, Opera (web browser) and Internet Archive created a large group of critics and angered the young generation of Bangladesh.

[26] As Minister he made it mandatory for all phones manufactured and imported in Bangladesh must have his software, Bijoy app, preinstalled.