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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use Pakistani English|date=December 2022}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| name = Jalaluddin Abdur Rahim
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| order = [[Foreign relations of Pakistan|Pakistan Ambassador to France]]
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| term_start = 1974
| term_end = 1976
| president = [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]]
| primeminister = [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]
| order2 = [[Minister of Defence Production]]
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| term_start2 = 1972
| term_end2 = 1974
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| vicepresident2 = [[Nurul Amin]]
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| president2 = [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]]
| primeminister2 = Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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| predecessor2 = Ministry established
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| order3 = [[Law Minister of Pakistan|Minister of Law]], [[Ministry of Justice (Pakistan)|Justice]], [[Planning Commission (Pakistan)|Town planning and agrovilles]].
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| term_start3 = 1971
| term_end3 = 1972
| alongside3 = 
| vicepresident3 = [[Nurul Amin]]
| viceprimeminister3 =
| president3 = [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] [[Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry]]
| order4 = 4th [[Foreign Secretary of Pakistan]]
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| term_start4 = 4 June 1953
| term_end4 = 11 January 1955
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| primeminister4 = [[Khawaja Nazimuddin]]
| governor-general4 = [[Malik Ghulam Muhammad|Malik Ghulam]]
| governor_general4 =
| predecessor4 = Sikandar Ali Baig
| successor4 = Akhtar Hussain
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|7|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chittagong]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = 1977
| death_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh Province]], Pakistan
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| birthname = Jalaludin Abdur Rahim
| citizenship = {{PAK}}
| nationality = Pakistani
| party = [[Pakistan Peoples Party]]
| otherparty = [[Pakistan Communist Party]]
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| relations = [[Abdur Rahim (judge)|Justice Abdur Rahim]] (father) [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]](brother-in-law)
| spouse = [[Esther Rahim]]
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| alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka|Dhaka University]] [[Calcutta University]]
| occupation = Communist social worker
| profession = civil servant
| cabinet = [[:Category:Government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto|Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Government]]
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'''Jalaluddin Abdur Rahim''' ([[Urdu language|Urdu:]] جلال الدين عبدالرحيم; [[Bengali language|Bengali:]] জালালুদ্দিন আবদুর রহিম; also known as '''J. A. Rahim''') (27 July 1906<ref>{{cite book |title=The International Who's Who |date=1974 |publisher=Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-0-900362-72-9 |pages=1416 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wsnwF5v_RO0C&q=Jalaludin+Abdur+Rahim+27+July+1906 |language=en}}</ref> – 1977) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] communist and [[political philosopher]] who was renowned as one of the founding members of the [[Pakistan People's Party]]—a [[democratic socialist]] political party.<ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/1203155 Smokers' Corner: Bhutto's ideologue: friend, mentor, enemy] Dawn (newspaper), Updated 30 August 2015, Retrieved 29 December 2017</ref> Rahim was also the first [[Secretary-General]] of the Pakistan People's Party, served as the first [[Minister of Defence Production|minister of production]]. A Bengali civil servant, 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.<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York">{{cite web|last=Dr. S. Akhtar Ehtisham|title=The Left in Pakistan|url=http://pakistanlink.org/Commentary/2011/Apr11/01/01.HTM|work=Dr. S. Akhtar Ehtisham|publisher=Pakistan Link (weekly newspaper), Anaheim, California|access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref> Rahim also guided Bhutto after Bhutto was deposed as [[Foreign Minister of Pakistan|Foreign Minister]], critically guiding Bhutto to take down the once US-sponsored dictatorship of [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]].<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York"/>

==Family and education==
Educated at the [[University of Dhaka]] where Rahim received double BSc in [[Political Science]] and Philosophy after writing and publishing the brief thesis on [[Nietzsche and Philosophy|Nietzsche Philosophy]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005">{{cite book|last=Khan, Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Air Staff of PAF|first=Air Marshal Asghar|title=We've learnt nothing from history: Pakistan: politics and military power|year=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press, 2005|location=Oxford, England, United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-19-597883-4|pages=305|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTxuAAAAMAAJ&q=We%27ve+learnt+nothing+from+history:+Pakistan:+politics+and+military+power}}</ref> Later, Rahim attended [[Calcutta University]], receiving an LL.B. degree in [[Law and Justice]]. Rahim began his political activism in [[Pakistan Movement]],<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> serving as its [[:Category:Pakistan Movement activists|activist]] in [[East Bengal]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> His father, [[Abdur Rahim (judge)|Justice Abdur Rahim]] also had served as a senior associate judge at the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/>

==Career==
After his education, Rahim joined the [[Pakistan Civil Services]], picking up the first bureaucratic assignment in [[Foreign Service of Pakistan]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> Rahim served as the [[Foreign Secretary (Pakistan)|Foreign Secretary]] under the government of Prime minister [[Muhammad Ali Bogra]].<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/>

For some time, he remained associated with [[Communist Party of Pakistan|Communist party]], but also built personal relations with [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] in 1965.<ref name="Oxford University Press, 2005"/> After attending the socialist convention at the residence of Dr. [[Mubashir Hassan]], J. A. Rahim played a key role in writing the party's socialist manifesto: "[[Islam]] is our religion; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; power lies with the people", on 30 November 1967. This manifesto was officially first issued on 9 December 1967. J.A. Rahim was made Pakistan Peoples Party's first secretary general after writing the party's constitution.<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York"/><ref>[https://dailytimes.com.pk/80602/the-rise-and-decline-of-ppp/ The rise and decline of PPP] Daily Times (newspaper), Published 23 May 2016, Retrieved 29 December 2017</ref>

Rahim earned public notability after his name was announced as a Bengali member of delegation of Pakistan Peoples Party to launch a negotiation with [[Awami League]] party under [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]].<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 19th February, 2012">{{cite news|last=Shaikh Aziz|title=A leaf from history: Operation Searchlight|url=http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/19/a-leaf-from-history-operation-searchlight.html|newspaper=Dawn Newspapers, 19 February 2012|date=19 February 2012|access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref> In 1970, Rahim along with [[Ghulam Mustafa Khar]], returned to [[West Pakistan]], telling Bhutto that the "meeting with Mujib was of no use".<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 19th February, 2012"/> After the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971|1971 war]], Rahim stayed in what remained of [[Pakistan]], governing the [[Law Minister of Pakistan|Law ministry]], [[Ministry of Justice (Pakistan)|Justice minister]], and the [[Planning Commission (Pakistan)|Township planning and agrovilles]]. In 1972, Rahim was appointed as the first [[Minister of Defence Production]] which he governed until 1974.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

===Disillusionment with Bhutto===
His relations with Bhutto deteriorated after Pakistan People's Party began purging the radical and ultra-left wings of the party and J. A. Rahim was also lined by Bhutto later.<ref name="St. Martin's Press">{{cite book|last=Talbot|first=Ian|title=Pakistan: A modern history|year=1998|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=United States|isbn=0-312-21606-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb/page/247 247]|url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb|url-access=registration|quote=j a rahim bhutto.}}</ref>

In July 1974, Rahim himself got disillusioned with Bhutto after seeing Bhutto's handling of internal affairs and publicly disagreed with Bhutto as he wanted Bhutto to deal with the matters efficiently, not by force.<ref name="St. Martin's Press"/>

He was appointed Pakistan Ambassador to France by Bhutto just to get him out of the way and away from Pakistani politics. But he returned to Pakistan unscheduled.<ref name="Pakistan Link Co. Bath, New York"/> Rahim was then tortured by the members of the secret police, the [[Federal Security Force]] (FSF), and was thrown into jail in 1976.<ref name=Dawn/><ref name="The Nation">{{cite web|last=Zaidi|first=Abbas|title=Whose Pakistan People's Party?|url=http://www.gowanusbooks.com/party.htm|work=Abbas Zaidi|publisher=The Nation|access-date=29 December 2022}}</ref> Shortly afterwards, he was released. Later after Bhutto had formally issued an apology to him, he again left for [[France]] to complete his tenure as ambassador.<ref name=Dawn/> Some people say that Bhutto, during his final days, regretted his fall-out with his former mentor, J. A. Rahim.<ref name=Dawn/>

==Death==
In 1977, Rahim suffered a heart attack and died. He is now buried in [[Karachi]], Sindh, Pakistan.<ref name=Dawn/>

==See also==
*[[Bangladesh Liberation War]]
*[[Socialism in Pakistan|Left-wing politics in Pakistan]]
*[[Pakistan-United States relations]]
*[[Pakistan–Russia relations|Pakistan-Soviet Union relations]]

==References==
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{{Government of Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto}}
{{Pakistan Movement}}
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