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member of the
Pakistan Delegation to the Commonwealth Educational Conference. He was a member of a Pakistani delegation to the October Day Celebrations in China. In 1970, he visited Japan to attend a conference on Religion. He visited Iran twice, firstly in 1970 as leader of the RCD team and in 1971 to attend the 2500 anniversary of monarchy Iran celebrations. He visited Poland in 1971 as a delegate to the Professors of English conference in Pozniak. In 1977, Hussain participated in the conference on education in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
336:, Saudi Arabia during 1975–1985. He moved back to Bangladesh in the late 1980s, where in retirement wrote for English and Bengali newspapers in Dhaka, reviewed books for the Muslim World Book Review published from Leicester, and published many of his books (including in collaboration with Dr Matiur Rahman), and lived in Dhaka until his death in January 1995, while he was writing a biography of the
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in 1942, earning a BA the year before in the same subject. During his masters studies, the East
Pakistan Literary Society was founded by Hussain with him as chairman which aimed to disseminate the message of Pakistan and forge a distinct Bengali Muslim literary idiom and held a successful conference
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visited Dhaka in the winter of 1936 on his mission to reorganise the Muslim League, Hussain had his first opportunity of hearing Jinnah and was immediately won over to the cause of Muslim nationalism. He was one of the first to welcome the
Pakistan scheme in a letter to the Statesman of Calcutta in
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Hussain in the vacant position. After the surrender of Dhaka in December 1971, Hussain was seized by guerillas and tortured and 'executed'; He however managed to survive albeit he was paralysed and admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital by the order of the Indian army. He was
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Hussain travelled across the world during his career. In 1954 he visited Burma as part of a student delegation. In 1954, he attended a PEN conference in
Holland and a year later organised a PEN conference in Dhaka. In 1956, he visited the USA on a leadership grant. In 1962, he visited India as a
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in 1943 and presided over a EPLS conference in 1944 in
Calcutta; Hussain also contributed to a Bengali fortnightly called Pakistan as well as to other newspapers like Azad, which he was invited to contribute by the invitation of Abul Kalam Shamsuddin. Hussain was thus an active supporter of the
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Hussain debuted his teaching career at
Calcutta Islamic College in 1944. In September 1947, Hussain was transferred to Sylhet's M.C. College where he spend a year teaching. He was a professor at Department of English of the University of Dhaka during 1948–1969. He was then appointed the
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