Chowdhury was born on 23 June 1938 to an aristocratic
Bengali Muslim family known as the
Zamindars of
Monakosha in
Nawabganj,
Malda district,
Bengal Presidency. His father,
Murtaza Raza Choudhry, was a former Finance Minister of
East Pakistan and a member of the 1st
National Assembly of Pakistan. His great-grandfather, Ismail Hossain Choudhry, was the
zamindar of
Kotalpukur in
Bihar. Chowdhury's mother, Syeda Roqeya Akhtar, belonged to the
Syeds of Taraf that had relocated to
Comilla. His maternal aunt, Syeda Selena Akhtar, was the wife of politician
Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry. ==Career==