Adviser AF Hassan Ariff no more

The interim government's Civil Aviation and Tourism Adviser AF Hassan Ariff has died at the age of 83, his assistant personal secretary Md Abed Chowdhury confirmed. 

Hassan Ariff died from heart disease at Dhaka's LabAid Hospital at 3:10pm on Friday. His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at the Baitul Aman Mosque in Dhanmondi after Esha prayers on Friday, his family confirmed.

AF Hassan Ariff was sworn in as an adviser to the Interim Government on August 8. He served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2005. Hassan Ariff also served as an adviser to the caretaker government’s ministries of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Land and Religion.

Born in Kolkata in 1941, AF Hassan Ariff completed his education at St. Xavier’s College and obtained his graduation and LLB degrees from the University of Calcutta. He started his career as a lawyer in the Calcutta High Court in 1967 and later joined the Bangladesh High Court.

He has worked on foreign investment, arbitration, commercial arbitration, corporate law, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.