Prof Khan Sarwar Murshid laid to rest
Eminent educationalist, diplomat and intellectual Prof Khan Sarwar Murshid was laid to rest with state honour at Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard in the capital's Mirpur yesterday.
He breathed his last at a city hospital on Saturday after suffering a brain stroke at the age of 88.
His namaz-e-janaza was held at Azad mosque in Gulshan after Zohr prayers and at Dhaka University mosque after Asr prayers yesterday.
Around noon, his body was taken to Central Shaheed Minar where people from all walks of life paid him homage and placed wreaths on his coffin.
Sammilito Sangskritik Jote made the arrangements in this regard.
Prof Khan Sarwar was accorded a guard of honour by a police contingent at Central Shaheed Minar.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the academician's Gulshan residence in the morning to pay her last tributes to him.
The premier placed wreath on his coffin and offered fateha. She condoled the bereaved family members.
Politicians, civil society members, cultural personalities, academicians and writers alongside different social, cultural and political organisations placed wreaths on his coffin at Central Shaheed Minar and attended his namaz-e-janazas.
Born in 1924, Prof Khan Sarwar had played vital roles in the country's major movements.
He was at the forefront of the Language Movement in 1952, the Mass Upsurge in 1969, the six-point movement and the War of Liberation in 1971.
Family members, relatives, friends, colleagues and well-wishers mourned his death.
Tazeen Murshid, Prof Khan Sarwar's daughter, said her father was a man of honesty and decency through out his life.
“My father was always in favour of establishment of equality in the society,†she told The Daily Star.
Besides, different socio-cultural organisations and political parties, including Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee; Bangladesh Mahila Parishad; Ain o Salish Kendra; Ganotantrik Bam Morcha; and Bangladesh College-Biswayabidyaloy Shikkhak Samiti, in separate statements, lamented the educationalist's death.
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