Khwaja Wasiuddin

Khawaja Wasiuddin (20 March 1920 – 22 September 1992) was a Bangladeshi army general and diplomat from Dhaka Nawab family. He started his career as a young officer in the British Indian Army and later became a senior general in Pakistan Army. In 1971, he was the highest ranking Bengali officer in the Pakistani army. In 1973, he was repatriated to Bangladesh, where he was received at the airport by General M.A.G. Osmani. He later served as a senior general in Bangladesh Army. He was the permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations.