Jalaludin Abdur Rahim

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Jalaluddin Abdur Rahim (Urdu: جلال الدين عبدالرحيم; Bengali: জালালুদ্দিন আবদুর রহিম; also known as J. A. Rahim) (27 July 1906 – 1977) was a Pakistani communist and political philosopher who was known as one of the founding members of the Pakistan People's Party(PPP)—a democratic socialist political party. Abdur Rahim was also the first Secretary-General of the PPP, and served as the first minister of production. A Bengali civil servant, Abdur Rahim was a philosopher who politically guided Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, serving as his mentor, and had helped Bhutto navigate through the minefield of bureaucratic establishment when Ayub Khan had taken Bhutto into his cabinet. Abdur Rahim also guided Bhutto, after the latter was deposed as Foreign Minister, to take down the once US-sponsored dictatorship of Ayub Khan.

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