UNB, Dhaka :
Shamsunnahar, 55, an inhabitant of former Indian enclave Dashiarchhara in Kurigram, could not get a last glimpse of her eldest son Shamsul Haque who died in India just over two months ago.
Shamsul, who was in his mid-thirties, died of fever nearly one year after he along with all his family members except his mother and youngest brother,
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went to India choosing Indian citizenship during the exchange of 162 enclaves between Bangladesh and India.
In the last one year, Shamsunnahar, a widow of freedom fighter Waliullah Patwary who died in 2012, could not meet any of her six children who left Bangladesh for India in November 2015.
During the exchange of enclaves that began on July 31 midnight in 2015, her four sons, two daughters, two daughters in-law and two grandchildren received Indian citizenship leaving her and her youngest son, class-VII student Khairul Islam, in Dashiarchhara- one of 111 Indian ex-enclaves inside Bangladesh territory.
Shamsunnahar, 55, an inhabitant of former Indian enclave Dashiarchhara in Kurigram, could not get a last glimpse of her eldest son Shamsul Haque who died in India just over two months ago.
Shamsul, who was in his mid-thirties, died of fever nearly one year after he along with all his family members except his mother and youngest brother,
Cont from page 12
went to India choosing Indian citizenship during the exchange of 162 enclaves between Bangladesh and India.
In the last one year, Shamsunnahar, a widow of freedom fighter Waliullah Patwary who died in 2012, could not meet any of her six children who left Bangladesh for India in November 2015.
During the exchange of enclaves that began on July 31 midnight in 2015, her four sons, two daughters, two daughters in-law and two grandchildren received Indian citizenship leaving her and her youngest son, class-VII student Khairul Islam, in Dashiarchhara- one of 111 Indian ex-enclaves inside Bangladesh territory.
