[1][2] Huq was born on 12 January 1936 in Dohar Upazila in Dhaka district of Bengal Province in then British India.

After being retired from government services his father was elected a member of Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946.

His immediate elder father Professor Dr Falzur Huq was a teacher in National University of Singapore.

His alternative elder brother Brigadier general Feroze Salahuddin Huq was in Pakistan Army who later repatriated with him after Bangladesh Liberation War.

Huq was transferred to Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth from Karachi after six months of instruction.

's from Eskaton Transit Camp (now the Navy House) to the barracks inside Dhaka Cantonment.

In April 1972, he was invited to visit India by Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda then Chief of Indian Navy on a 10-day forum.

He commissioned first two river gun boats of Bangladesh Navy during his tenure as Chief of Naval Staff.

He was directed to take over as Chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) in addition to his own duties in Navy.

[3] After the arrival of then Captain M. H. Khan from Pakistan he handed over the charge on 6 November 1973 and became the Chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA).

After the 1978 Bangladeshi presidential election the President's Council of Advisors was dissolved and the Cabinet was formed and Captain Huq sworn in as the Minister the Ministry of Ports Shipping and IWT.

So his tenure as a minister ended on 27 November 1981 but he continued as a Member Of Parliament till 24 March 1982.

He worked there as the Volunteer Coordinator and the Racial Master Advisor to the Warden at Toynbee Hall.