[2] At the outbreak of the Bangladesh War of Independence, Azizur Rahman supported the Pakistani state forces and denounced the Bengali nationalist struggle.

[3] He led the Pakistani delegation to the United Nations in November 1971, where he would emphatically deny that the Pakistan Army's Operation Searchlight had degenerated into genocide.

In 1971, following the defeat of Pakistan in the war, Azizur Rahman was arrested under the collaborators act but was released in 1973 under a general amnesty by Prime Minister Sheikh Mujib.

[2] In the post-war period, authorities estimated that over a million people had been killed in Bangladesh by Pakistani state forces and collaborating militias.

[4] However, he also wanted the party's parliamentarians to choose their leader through a secret ballot, which Shah Aziz managed to win so that Ziaur Rahman could not ignore him.

[4] As prime minister, Shah Azizur Rahman helped ratify the infamous Indemnity Act promulgated by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed.