Khasru completed his SSC from Madhabpur High School in 1967.[9] He got admitted to Comilla Victoria Government College and completed graduation in 1970.[10] They were four brothers and three sisters of whom he was the eldest. His father served in the Pakistan Army. His son Munem Wasif is a photojournalist who works at Agence Vu photography agency.[11] Khasru was actively involved in politics since his student life. When he was a graduate student, the Bangladesh Liberation War started. Khasru fought in Burichang in Comilla District during the war.[2]
Career
Khasru started his legal practice at the District and Sessions Judges Court, Comilla in 1978.[2] Later he started practicing in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1982. He founded a law firm Abdul Matin Khasru & Associates in Dhaka.
Khasru was a senior advocate enrolled at the Bangladesh Bar Council. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council in 2015.[12]
On 16 March 2021, he won the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Election 2021-2022 as the president from the White Panel backed by the Bangladesh Awami League. He died before taking charge.[13][14]
Political career
Khasru was first elected to Parliament in 1991 from Comilla-5 on a nomination of Awami League defeating the incumbent, Mohammad Yunus of the Jatiya Party. He was re-elected in 1996.[15]
Khasru was elected to the parliament in 2008 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He headed the Parliamentarians' Caucus on Disability during the 9th parliamentary sessions.[17] On 23 March 2011, he criticised the use of "vulgar" words by members of parliament in the Jatiya Sangshad.[18]
Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2014 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] In 2015, he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.[19] He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.[20]
Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2018 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He was the president of the parliamentary standing committee on law. He summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission to parliament over its failure to take action against the former chairperson of BASIC Bank, Sheikh Abdul Hai Bacchu, on loans scams.[21]
On 10 April 2020, Mosheur Mahfuz Babu, journalist and owner of Times of Cumilla, was arrested under the Digital Security Act for spreading "rumours" about Khasru. The website had reported Khasru's death.[22] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Khasru provided food aid to 5000 families in Comilla in April 2020.[23]
