Early Life and Education
Lieutenant Colonel Abu Taher was born in Badarpur, Assam Province in then British India on 14 November 1938. His family hailed from Kazla village in Purbadhala of then Bengal Province, today a town in the Netrokona District of Bangladesh. After completion of higher secondary school from Sylhet M C College, he joined the Pakistan Army in 1960 as an officer candidate.
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