Graphic Arts Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Graphic Arts Institute was established in 1967 in Dhaka, East Pakistan by Muhammad Azam Khan, the governor-general of East Pakistan, and Waqar Ahmed, Director General of the Technical Education Directorate. The first head of the institute was the South Dakota University-trained R. K. Mollah. He was trained in printing technology and his staff was provided some training in printing by the Pakistan government press.[3] During the Bangladesh Liberation war, Bengalis were tortured in the buildings of the institutes by pro-Pakistan militias.[4][5] The institute is under the administration of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.[3] The institute has a mosque on its campus. The son of Abul Hashem, the Imam of the mosque, Mubarak Hossain was detained in Afghanistan and handed over to United States forces and then transported to Guantanamo bay. Mubarak Hossain was released in December 2006 and deported to Bangladesh where he was detained by Bangladesh police on arrival