page_title: Moeen U Ahmed
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Moeen U Ahmed / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: Retired Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed, former Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh, accepts his IHoF induction certificate from Retired Navy Capt. Dorsey Moore, immediate past president of the Kansas City Chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars during the IHOF ceremony held Oct. 1.
context_page_description: Moeen Uddin Ahmed is a former Bangladesh Army General and the 12th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from 15 June 2005 to 15 June 2009 with last one-year extension during the caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed. He has worked in Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan as a Defence Attaché in the rank of Brigadier, and prior to that he served as a UN Peacekeeper in United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda as a Colonel in 1995.
  Moeen Uddin Ahmed is the first army chief of staff who was commissioned in the newly formed Bangladesh Military Academy then at Comilla. He is the first regular four-star general after the liberation war, although the first official four-star general was the country's commander-in-chief of the liberation war and liberation forces M. A. G. Osmani, leading the war of independence in 1971, and the second person was Lieutenant-General Mustafizur Rahman who was promoted to full general on the day of his retirement on December 23, 2000.
  Moeen was, behind the scenes, the main actor, although unlawfully, as the Chief of Army Staff during the 2006–08 Bangladeshi political crisis, violating constitution.
context_section_description: He is married to Naznin Moeen, and they have a son and a daughter; Nihat Ahmed and Sabrina Ahmed. Moeen is currently residing in the US with his family.
caption: Retired Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed, former Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh, accepts his IHoF induction certificate from Retired Navy Capt. Dorsey Moore, immediate past president of the Kansas City Chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars during the IHOF ceremony held Oct. 1. 2009
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