Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury

Lieutenant General (Retired) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury (Bengali: হাসান মশহুদ চৌধূরী) is a former Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh. He became the Chief of Army staff in 2002 and after retirement from the Army, became an adviser of the interim caretaker government in October 2006. He resigned along with three other advisers Akbar Ali Khan, C M Shafi Sami and Sultana Kamal after a series of disagreements which included army deployment in the country with the Chief adviser and President Iajuddin Ahmed. They had been used by Moeen and his group and a group of civil society, which was unknown to them.