Attack on Zafar Iqbal protested at CU

Chittagong University Teachers’ Association formed a human chain protesting attack on eminent writer and educationist Prof Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal at SUST on Saturday.
Chittagong University Teachers’ Association formed a human chain protesting attack on eminent writer and educationist Prof Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal at SUST on Saturday.
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CU Correspondent :
The Teachers Association of Chittagong University (CU) and Bangladesh Chhatra League CU Unit yesterday formed a human chain at CU protesting the attack on the noted writer Professor Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.
The human chain was formed at CU Banghabandhu Chattar at around 1 pm and it was presided over by CU Teachers Association President Pro.Mihir Kumar Roy.
The protesters demanded capital punishment of those people who involve the attrack on the eminent professor. The protesters declared to observe a one-hour work abstention from 10:00am tomorrow and urged the government to immediately find out the masterminds behind the attack and bring them to book.
Dr Zafar Iqbal, who was seriously injured in the knife attack on the campus on Saturday afternoon, is now undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.
 A young man, aged around 24-25, swooped on Zafar Iqbal around 5:40pm while he was delivering his speech on the closing day of a two-day celebration programme, ‘Robofight,’ of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department at Mukta Mancha.
The celebrated writer was first taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and kept at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where doctors said he was out of danger.
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