Background
Jamal was born at Tungipara, Gopalganj on 28 April 1954.
Jamal was born at Tungipara, Gopalganj on 28 April 1954.
He was a freedom fighter. Sheikh Jamal, after a period of studies at B A F Shaheen College, finished his matriculation from Dhaka Residential Model College in Dhaka. He passed Higher School Certificate from Dhaka College.
He learned playing guitar at a music institution and was also a good cricketer.
While a student of Dhaka College, Jamal traveled to Yugoslavia for military training under the auspices of the Yugoslav army. Subsequently, he trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Great Britain.
He joined the Bangladesh Army as a Commissioned Officer.
Detained with his mother and other members of the family at a house in Dhanmondi during the war of Liberation in 1971, Jamal found the means to escape and cross over to a liberated zone, where he joined the struggle to free the country.