Col Qadir's son visits his grave first time
“My father's memory was like a dream. But now, sitting beside his grave, I can feel his presence,” said Naweed Qadir, son of the War of Liberation martyr Lt Col Mohammad Abdul Qadir yesterday.
Col Qadir's wife Hasna Hena Qadir was pregnant with her third child, Naweed, when the Pakistani army “arrested” the martyr from his Chittagong residence on April 17, 1971 and killed him for his role in the War of Liberation.
Since then the body and the grave were traceless. But the eldest son, Nadeem Qadir, in his relentless search since 1990, discovered the site in Panchlaish of Chittagong in 2007 where the Pakistani army had killed and buried Col Qadir.
This was for the first time that Naweed, an IT expert working in New Zealand, visited his father's grave, accompanied by Nadeem, his sister Rubina Qadir Hussain and the army garrison Chief Brig Gen Shams Khan.
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