The link between PhD of Colonel Oli Ahmed and DU VC Niaz Ahmed Khan Revealed.

The link between PhD of Colonel Oli Ahmed and DU VC Niaz Ahmed Khan Revealed.

In a shocking revelation that has sent waves through the political landscapes, it has emerged that Colonel (Retd.) Oli Ahmed—the presidential candidate proposed by the Jamaat-e-Islami-led 11-party alliance—completed his PhD with the direct support of Professor Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan, who served as the Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University during the post-uprising interim government of Bangladesh led by Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. 

The academic foundations of this major presidential contender were laid at the prestigious School of Social Science & Law at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom, where he submitted his doctoral dissertation. Titled "Revolution, Military Personnel and the War of Liberation in Bangladesh," the PhD thesis was formally supervised by Professor Barrie Axford and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Development Alternative (UODA), Professor Emajuddin Ahamed. 

The focus of the PhD thesis delves into a sensitive and deeply critical chapter of South Asian history: the specific roles, psychological motivations, and strategic actions of Bengali military officers serving within the Pakistan Army during the initial, volatile phase of the 1971 Liberation War. Unlike typical military interventions across other Third World nations, the study rigorously argues that these Bengali officers did not revolt to seize political control or overthrow a corrupt regime. Instead, they acted purely to forge an independent state. The thesis presents a provocative historical perspective, asserting that while civilian political leaders successfully mobilized the masses for a revolutionary movement, they ultimately "faltered" at the most critical juncture of the military crisis. According to the research, this civilian disarray prompted deeply nationalistic Bengali military officers—who were tracking Pakistani cantonment deployments closely—to independently take the crucial decision to revolt, declare Bangladesh's independence, and single-handedly sustain the armed warfare from March 25 until April 17, 1971, when the Mujibnagar Government-in-exile was finally organized to assume command.

The true nature of this surprising alliance has finally been uncovered by the Citizen Perspective, which meticulously reviewed the physical pages of the presidential candidate's doctoral thesis. In the closely watched acknowledgment section of the dissertation, Colonel Oli Ahmed explicitly credits and thanks Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan for providing commentary and informal discussions regarding the research methodology. This profound intellectual connection has sparked intense public interest, drawing a direct line between the presidential aspirant of the Jamaat-led alliance and Professor Niaz, who was appointed to the Dhaka University Vice-Chancellorship during the Yunus-led interim administration—a strategic campus appointment widely attributed at the time to the influential backing of Islami Chhatrashibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami.