BSS, DHAKA
Liberation war veteran and former chief of state-run Petrobangla, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) and Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company major Muktadir Ali passed away today. He was 69.
“He was declared dead at CMH (combined military hospital) when he was taken there following a brain hemorrhage this afternoon at his Banani residence,” his colleague and friend retired major general Jibon Kanai Chakrabarty told BSS.
Muktadir, hailed from Bianibazar upazila of Sylhet, left behind his wife, a son and a daughter alongside a host of admirers and relatives to mourn his death.
Ali was recruited in army as an officer of second war course or Second SS during the 1971 Liberation War while he subsequently served in the 10th Bengal Regiment of the infantry corps until his retirement from military.
He later served as the managing director of Titas Gas and chairman of BPC and subsequently the Petrobangla.
“The detailed funeral schedule will be fixed on return of his expatriate children from abroad but he is expected to be buried at the army graveyard,” Chakrabarty said.
