In Search of Photographer Shahidul Alam's Roots: What His Past Says
According to sources, in 1971 Bir Uttam Major General Khaled Musharraf's 2 daughters were locked up in their house by Pakistani forces, Shahidul Alam's mother Kazi Anwara Mansoor. She was the headmistress of a leading girls' school. Shahidul's maternal uncle Sabur Khan, brother of Anwara Mansoor, was a notorious Razakar.
In 2018, young students formed a large movement demanding safer roads in Bangladesh. Assessing the sentiments of students, the government did not take any strict action against this movement, rather the streets were left to the students.
It can be said that the government had indirect support for this movement due to humanitarian reasons, because the movement was mainly about public awareness.
However, from the beginning, a faction tried to make this movement anti-government, among which actress Kazi Nowshaba Ahmed and photographer Shahidul are one.
Naushaba was arrested for continuously trying to enrage the students by spreading various rumors and spreading rumors of killing students.
Photographer Shahidul Alam was also arrested for spreading rumors like this actor. He was trying to bring local and foreign journalists on one platform to put the government in trouble. Shahidul Alam even made special efforts to free two Myanmar nationals who were arrested for coming to Bangladesh on tourist visas and working as journalists, which was a treasonous act.
After Shahidul Alam's arrest, it was unilaterally publicized as a human rights crisis in Bangladesh at the national and international levels. Due to the fuel of the political party or the special weakness of Shahidul Haque towards any political ideology, the issue of his treason was suppressed.
But recently Shahidul Alam's ideological and political identity intimacy picture has become quite viral on social media. In the picture, Shahidul Alam is seen in a very sincere and smiling manner with the leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP. However, critics are not willing to call it unusual because politically he is the son of a Razaka family.
According to sources, in 1971 Bir Uttam Major General Khaled Musharraf's 2 daughters were locked up in their house by Pakistani forces, Shahidul Alam's mother Kazi Anwara Mansoor. She was the headmistress of a leading girls' school. Shahidul's maternal uncle Sabur Khan, brother of Anwara Mansoor, was a notorious Razakar.
When the freedom fighters went to rescue Khaled Musharraf's two daughters, he called the Pakistan Army and opened fire with the freedom fighters. Information source-Seventy-one days of Martyr Janani Jahanara Imam'.
Therefore, he is anti-independence by family lines. His family did not want this country to be born. So how will they like the 'good things' of this country?