| Syed Mohammad Qaisar | |
| Native Name: | সৈয়দ মোহাম্মদ কায়সার |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
| Office: | Minister of State for Agriculture |
| Term Start: | 1988 |
| Term End: | 1991 |
| Constituency Mp1: | Habiganj-4 |
| Successor1: | Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid |
| Term Start1: | 1988 |
| Term End1: | 1991 |
| Term Start2: | 1986 |
| Term End2: | 1988 |
| Term Start3: | 1979 |
| Term End3: | 1986 |
| Predecessor3: | Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid |
| Birth Date: | 19 June 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Habiganj, British Raj |
| Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Citizenship: | Bangladeshi |
| Party: | Jatiya Party |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Cabinet: | Ershad Cabinet |
Syed Mohammad Qaisar (19 June 1940 – 11 February 2022) was a Bangladeshi Jatiya Party politician who served as a state minister, and as a member of the Parliament of Bangladesh from 1979 to 1988.[1] He was convicted for committing war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh sentenced him to death in December 2014 for crimes against humanity.[2] His crimes included genocide, mass murder, rape and arson.[3] During the war, he formed a militia group in his name called Qaisar Bahini.[4]
Qaisar was born on 19 June 1940 in the village of Itakhola under Madhabpur in Habiganj of the then British India (now Bangladesh).[5] His father's name was Syed Sayeduddin and mother was Begum Hamida Banu.[5] According to his testimony to the Bangladesh Election Commission, Qaisar passed Secondary School Certificate from Armanitola Government High School, Higher Secondary School Certificate from Jagannath College and received BA degree.[5] But it was contradicted during his trial.[5]
He died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka on 11 February 2022, at the age of 81.[6]