Childhood and Family
Engr. Mosharraf was born in 1943 in the village of Dhoom of Mirsharai Upazila, in Chittagong, Bangladesh. His father, S. Rahman was a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of Pakistan (1960s) and a renowned businessman. S. Rahman started his business in Kolkata in 1944 and moved to Chittagong after the Partition of Bengal in 1947. In Chittagong he founded Orient Builders Corporation, an infrastructure development company, where he developed numerous roads, buildings and other important installations in Bangladesh. He also pioneered luxury bus services, Silver Arrow with fleet of 20 luxurious Mercedes buses for Cox’s Bazar and other areas of Bangladesh from Chittagong. S. Rahman also played a major role to jumpstart tourism business by building the first hotel resort, Hotel Sayeman in Cox's Bazar in 1964 and operated Government owned Rest House at Station Road in Chittagong. Engr. Mosharraf’s Grandfather, Fazlur Rahman was also a noble businessman and a social worker. Fazlur Rahman held a post as the President of Union Parishad in Mirsharai for about 20 years. Engr. Mosharraf’s Mother, Panjubunnesa was a social worker and a devotee to women’s education. She established the Panjubunnesa Girl’s School in Goloker Hut, which is now one of the best girl’s education centres in Mirsharai.
After his graduation from University of Engineering and Technology (Lahore), he returned to Chittagong and was married to Ayesha Sultana, daughter of Doctor Gholam Arshard, a prominent physician in Chittagong, in 1967. Engr. Mosharraf has three sons and a daughter. His sons were educated in the United States and currently engaged in their own and family businesses in Bangladesh while his daughter is currently a practising medical doctor in New York, USA.
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