Md. Tafazzal Ali, commonly known as T. Ali (1906–1988), was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, who was federal minister of Pakistan as a member of Ministry of Talents and provincial minister of East Pakistan as a member of Amin ministry.

Biography

Ali was born in 1 July 1906 in Kasba, Tippera District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, British India. He acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree from Islamia College, Calcutta. After obtaining his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Calcutta in 1933, Ali started his career as a lawyer of Calcutta High Court. In 1936, he became a member of the Tippera District Board.

He was elected from the Tippera North-East constituency in the 1946 Bengal Legislative Assembly election, becoming a member and deputy speaker of the Bengal Legislative Assembly. After 1947, he became a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. In 1948, he was appointed as provincial minister for revenue in East Pakistan. Later, he was given the provincial portfolios of finance and agriculture. In 1953, he was appointed as federal minister for commerce in Pakistan.

In 1955, he was appointed as ambassador of Pakistan to Egypt for a year. He was elected president of the East Pakistan High Court Bar Association in 1962 and Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association in 1975. Ali died on 13 December 1988 at Bangkok Hospital, Thailand. Politician Reza Ali and military personnel Major Sadek Ali were his sons.