The 50th death anniversary of Shaheed Lieutenant Colonel Dr NAM Jahangir will be observed in a befitting manner on March 30.
On this day, 50 years ago, the Pakistani Army brutally killed him along with his fellow officers and soldiers during the War of Liberation in 1971 when he was the Commanding Officer of the then ’40 Field Ambulance’ stationed in Cumilla Cantonment.
Special programmes have been chalked out to observe the 50th death anniversary of Dr NAM Jahangir at Cumilla Cantonment.
Besides, a doa mahfil will be held after Jummah prayers at Pangsha Masjid at his ancestral home in Rajbari on April 2.
Relatives, friends and admirers have been humbly requested to pray for eternal peace of the departed soul of Jahangir.
Highly distinguished officer Shaheed Lieutenant Colonel Jahangir showed his nationalist spirit from his very early life. He contributed to the Language Movement of 1952 when was a final year student of Dhaka Medical College.
Later, Jahangir joined Army Medical Corps 1953 and obtained higher degree on Clinical Pathology from USA.
His work as coordinator of post-cyclone (1970) relief and rehabilitation was enormously valued. The unit of Medical Corps, under his command, revolted against the occupying forces at the very beginning of the country’s War of Liberation in 1971.
After a brief encounter, the Pakistani Military Forces arrested and executed him along with hundreds of fellow officers and soldiers.
After independence in 1972, his body was exhumed form a mass grave and buried with full military ceremonial fervor on the premises of Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Cumilla Cantonment in Cumilla.
Bangladesh Postal Department also released postage stamps to commemorate his martyrdom.
