{"id":31412,"date":"2017-03-10T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:15:15","slug":"language-veteran-journo-zainul-abedin-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=31412","title":{"rendered":"Language veteran, journo Zainul Abedin laid to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"1489158587\"Dhaka: Zainul Abedin, a Urdu\u00a0speaking senior journalist and one of the 1952 Bengali\u00a0Language Movement veterans, was buried at Intellectual\u00a0Martyrs graveyard at Mirpur in the city this afternoon.<\/div>\n
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The octogenarian journalist, also a famous Bengali and\u00a0Urdu movie script writer, was laid to eternal at this<\/div>\n
special graveyard as mark of recognition of his\u00a0contribution to the language and other progressive\u00a0movement in the country.<\/div>\n
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He was buried around 3.30pm following his second Namaj-e-janaz at the Baitul Mukarram national mosque held\u00a0after the Juma prayers.<\/div>\n
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Earlier, his first Namaj-e-janaza was held on the\u00a0National Press Club premises at 9am.<\/div>\n
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Senior journalists including Jatiya Press Club President\u00a0Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, former President Khondoker\u00a0Monirul Alam, Press Club Senior Vice President Saiful\u00a0Alam, president of Bangladesh Federal Union of\u00a0Journalists (BFUJ) Manjurual Ahsan Bulbul and BFUJ<\/div>\n
Secretary General Omar Faruque, Dhaka Union of\u00a0Journalists (DUJ) President Saban Mahmud, DUJ General\u00a0Secretary Sohel Haider Chowdhury and former BFUJ and DUJ\u00a0leaders, among others, participated in the janaza.<\/div>\n
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Zainul Abedin, 81, breathed his last at Bangabandhu\u00a0Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) last night.<\/div>\n
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Dhaka: Zainul Abedin, a Urdu\u00a0speaking senior journalist and one of the 1952 Bengali\u00a0Language Movement veterans, was buried at Intellectual\u00a0Martyrs graveyard at Mirpur in the city this afternoon. The octogenarian journalist, also a famous Bengali and\u00a0Urdu movie script writer, was laid to eternal at this special graveyard as mark of recognition of his\u00a0contribution to the language […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n