Early Life
Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury spent his childhood in Sylhet. His student life started in a patshala in Kanishail village of Sylhet. As his father had a transferring job, he had to come with his father in Barisal. He studied at Barisal Zilla School for five years. He came to Dhaka after passing SSC in 1964 and was admitted in prominent Notre Dame College. In 1966 he became a student of the Economics Department of the University of Dhaka. One year later he suddenly decided to join the army. After getting into the army he went to the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul in West Pakistan. Two years later he was commissioned into Frontier Force Regiment which was mainly formed with Pathan soldiers. He worked in Karachi, Lahore, Azad Kashmir and Sindh. He went to Quetta a few times for training.
Then came the Bangladesh Liberation War. At that time he was interred as an enemy officer. He remembered, "I was interred in a remote place surrounded by mountains. We were treated as prisoners of war. It was clear to me that we would be used to exchange for Pakistani prisoners of war in India". He was captive in Pakistan from 1972 to 1974 and described the period as "miserable and wastage of time and working ability".
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