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Bangladeshi journalist

Zafar Sobhan is a prominent Bangladeshipublic intellectual, lawyer, journalist, and political analyst. He is the Editor of the Dhaka Tribune, one of the major English language newspapers of Bangladesh.

Sobhan became the first internationally syndicated columnist to emerge from the English-language Bangladeshi press. He is widely considered as a leading, liberal man of letters.

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Early life and education

Sobhan was born in London on 19 May 1970 to Rehman Sobhan and Salma Sobhan. The Sobhan family is related to Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the last Prime Minister of Bengal and the 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Sobhan's father was a member of Bangladesh's first Planning Commission and later an Adviser to the Caretaker Government led by Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed in 1990-91.^[1][2] His mother was the first woman barrister of Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as a Research Fellow in the Bangladesh Institute of Law and Intern