Abdur Rob alias Boga Mia was a Freedom Fighter, Liberation War organiser, socio-political activist and former president of Pabna Zila Awami League during the pre-Liberation War period. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in Pabna during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, owing to his leadership and organising capability. He united the various political and civil forces that supported Bangladesh's independence in 1971.

Boga Mia was born on November 10 in 1916 in the district of Rangpur, where his father was a school inspector (during the time of British rule). Sabkatuddin Ahmed, his father worked as an educationalist and was posted in Pabna, Rangpur, Cumilla, Dhaka and Kolkata during his career. He retired as a Divisional School Inspector (during the British period) and settled in Kolkata. He died in 1948 and was buried in Gobra Cemetery in Kolkata.

Like his father educationalist Sabkatuddin Ahmed, Boga Mia also studied in Kolkata, and once worked for India’s Tata Group. Due to his father’s influential background, he got opportunities to live a comfortable life in Kolkata and mingled with great personalities in the city. During the early years in his political life, he was a young leader and he met Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1933. Suhrawardy liked him and this was possible because he had organising power and capability to become a great leader.

Boga Mia came to Pabna from Kolkata after the partition of Bengal in 1948. The house in Kolkata was sold and Boga Mia used majority of the proceeds for the political activities of Pabna and the rest of the money he used for business. He owned the local dealership of Caltex (Caltex is a petroleum brand of Chevron Corporation operating in 29 countries in the Asia-Pacific region), and ESSO.

In 1953, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ataur Rahman Khan (Chief Minister of East Pakistan) visited Pabna. At the proposal of Boga Mia, Captain M Mansur Ali — who was three years junior to Boga Mia — had been selected