He was arrested for disrupting the convocation program on the DU campus in 1964 where the then governor of East Pakistan Abdul Monem Khan was present.

He became the chief reporter of Pakistan Press International and Dhaka correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting Service.

He sent news items on the atrocities carried out by the Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh.

[1] On 11 December 1971, he was picked up from his Purana Paltan house by the members of Al-Badr.

[1] On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – six journalists including Syed Nazmul Haque, nine Dhaka University teachers and three physicians – in December 1971.