Nat’l Professor Sufia Ahmed laid to rest

National Professor Sufia Ahmed, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday night, was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in the capital yesterday.

Sufia, also a Language Movement veteran, was buried at 10:30am in the grave of her husband Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, former adviser to a caretaker government and a prominent lawyer.

Sufia Ahmed (87) was a professor of Islamic History and Culture department at Dhaka University. She passed away at United Hospital around 8:50pm on Thursday, said Md Asaduzzaman, a senior member of Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed and Associates.

She left behind her son and daughter to mourn her death.

Prof Sufia Ahmed was one of the female forerunners to break the Section 144 on the Dhaka University campus on February 21, 1952.

She was awarded with Ekushey Padak in 2002 and Sufia Kamal Award in 2015. She served as the president of Bangladesh Itihas Parishad.