City Desk :
Zainul Abedin, a Urdu speaking senior journalist and one of the 1952 Bengali
Language Movement veterans, was buried at Intellectual Martyrs graveyard at Mirpur in the city on Friday afternoon.
The octogenarian journalist, also a famous Bengali and Urdu movie script writer, was laid to eternal at this special graveyard as mark of recognition of his contribution to the language and other progressive movement in the country.
He was buried around 3.30 pm following his second Namaz-
e-Janaza at the Baitul Mukarram National mosque held after the Juma prayers.
Earlier, his first Namaz-e-Janaza was held on the National Press Club premises at 9am.
Senior journalists including Jatiya Press Club President Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, former President Khondoker Monirul Alam, Press Club Senior Vice President Saiful
Alam, President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Manjurual Ahsan Bulbul and BFUJ Secretary General Omar Faruque, Dhaka Union of
Journalists (DUJ) President Saban Mahmud, DUJ General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury and former BFUJ and DUJ leaders, among others, participated in the Janaza.
Zainul Abedin, a Urdu speaking senior journalist and one of the 1952 Bengali
Language Movement veterans, was buried at Intellectual Martyrs graveyard at Mirpur in the city on Friday afternoon.
The octogenarian journalist, also a famous Bengali and Urdu movie script writer, was laid to eternal at this special graveyard as mark of recognition of his contribution to the language and other progressive movement in the country.
He was buried around 3.30 pm following his second Namaz-
e-Janaza at the Baitul Mukarram National mosque held after the Juma prayers.
Earlier, his first Namaz-e-Janaza was held on the National Press Club premises at 9am.
Senior journalists including Jatiya Press Club President Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, former President Khondoker Monirul Alam, Press Club Senior Vice President Saiful
Alam, President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Manjurual Ahsan Bulbul and BFUJ Secretary General Omar Faruque, Dhaka Union of
Journalists (DUJ) President Saban Mahmud, DUJ General Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury and former BFUJ and DUJ leaders, among others, participated in the Janaza.
