Masud Rana (fictional character)

Masud Rana was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Justice Imtiaz Chowdhury and Jahanara Imtiaz Chowdhury. Unfortunately, at the age of 13, his parents were killed in a car accident near Chittagong, leaving him orphaned.

After his parents' death, Rana went to live with his aunt, Ismat Ara, in Fort William, Highland. Later, he briefly attended Eton College, a prestigious boarding school in England.

According to the early Pakistan-era novels of the Masud Rana series, Rana joined the Pakistan Army and graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He began his army career in the infantry (regiment unknown) and eventually became a commando, later joining Military Intelligence. At a young age, Rana was promoted to the rank of major. He was later recruited by Rahat Khan to work for PCI, which later became BCI.

During the liberation war of Bangladesh, Major Rana fought in the front-line with guerrillas while hiding his real identity and rank. After independence, Rana and Sohel worked together to rebuild BCI from the ashes. Sohel worked in the light while Rana remained in the shadows.[10]

Masud Rana is a unique individual with a strong spirit and principles. He is known for his fearlessness and willingness to take on heavy risks. Rana tends to be a solitary individual who enjoys athletic pursuits such as running, skiing, hiking, swimming, diving, and most notably, climbing.

Rana is a goal-oriented individual who seeks structure in his life. He has acquired strong tastes and thrives under a sense of pattern and habit. Despite this, Rana finds subtle ways of rebelling against structure.

He has a remarkable willingness to take on dangerous missions, making him an excellent candidate for intelligence, espionage, counterintelligence, and covert operations assignments.

Rana has strong interpersonal skills and can act comfortably in many situations. However, he tends to seek companionship mainly for sexual recreation.

Rana's lone wolf personality tends to attract others, but he does not console himself by surrounding himself with others. He prefers to carefully organize the aspects of his personality that he reveals to others, and he excels at burying information he does not wish to reveal.

While the world is far from black and white to Rana, he does tend to see it in stark terms of chaos and order, tradition and change. Rana has chosen to identify with order and tradition.

Rana is an excellent candidate for sensational and high risk intelligence, espionage, counter intelligence and covert operation assignments.

He is a highly skilled athlete who excels in solitary sports such as climbing, diving, swimming, and running. Additionally, he has a passion for driving high-end vehicles at high speeds, although he does not participate in racing. Rana has been known to enjoy gambling at various casinos, but has never allowed it to result in financial ruin. He also indulges in drinking, but in moderation and not to excess.

Major Rana underwent specialized training and orientation for BCI Covert Operations. He demonstrated outstanding physical endurance as well as aptitude in logical and psychological operations exercises.

Major Rana completed specialized orientations and BCI Covert Operations training, showcasing exceptional physical endurance, as well as logical and psychological operations exercises.

Graduating with mastery in Underwater and Aquatic Warfare training, Major Rana's expertise extends to jungle, desert, Arctic, mountain, and urban warfare. In addition, he earned certifications for operating various rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, including fighter jets, hovercraft, marine assault vessels, and armored vehicles. His training encompasses special reconnaissance, sniping, evasive driving, free-falling, hostage rescue and negotiation, human-intelligence gathering, and numerous other military skills.

Major Rana proved his capabilities as a trainer, adept at training other candidates, initiating athletic competitions, and fostering a creative environment. He excels in guerrilla warfare, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, asymmetric warfare, and covert reconnaissance.

Major Rana has a natural aptitude for learning BCI methods and excels in languages, speaking fluently without accent in Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, English, Italian, French, and German. He also speaks, reads, and writes passable Greek, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese. In some situations, Rana has been known to come across as arrogant and overly confident.

Rana tends to work best with general goals and the freedom to accomplish those goals in the manner he sees fit. Although he often appears as a loner, he exemplifies discipline and results-oriented action. Rana enjoys taking risks, calculating the odds of success, and playing those risks to the edge of failure. However, he may appear visibly bored and restless during more mundane aspects of training.[11]

Rana continued to work as a mission specialist in locations such as the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Zimbabwe, Italy, Australia, Chili, Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong, Norway, Israel, Sweden, Brazil, Egypt, India, Pakistan and many other countries of the world.

Rana's service with the BCI has been marked by moments of exemplary but risky bravado. While performing his duties with great zeal, Major Rana has often taken it upon himself to expand upon his orders, and, on more than one occasion, to violate them outright.[12]

Rana has been a special projects director of the fictional US agency National Underwater & Maritime Agency. He is also an advisor to the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Rana has fought around the world as a mercenary, though not for money, for ideology and humanity, knowingly in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Congo, Bosnia, Katanga and Zimbabwe.

He has served on deputation/temporary attachment with the Egyptian Army, as a staff officer in Military Intelligence and a trainer in the Special Forces. He has served with various US Special Operations units such as Force Recon, Special Forces in many joint operations. He has served undercover in the Royal Navy on an assignment from MI6 to foil an anarchist plot, and in the mercenary Katanga Army to rescue a Rana Agency agent stranded inside rebel territory. He is also a team leader of an anti-terrorism unit of the United Nations.[13]