RIP mister President

[BDforever]

Just few moments ago Bangadesh's President Zillur Rahman died in Singapore hospital at age of 85. Inna Lillah e wa Inna elaihe rajeun.

 

[arp2041]

RIP.

More political trouble for already troubled BD.

So now VP will be the new President??

 

[Adios Amigo]

Inna Lillahe wa Inna Ilaihe Rajeon. May his soul rest in peace...Amin!

 

[BDforever]

RIP.

More political trouble for already troubled BD.

So now VP will be the new President??

there is no vice president, chief speaker Mr. Md. Abdul Hamid Advocate will do his duty i think

 

[Zabaniyah]

Confirmed:

Zillur Rahman dies

President Md Zillur Rahman has died at a Singapore hospital after fighting for life for 11 days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condoled his death and said she is sad at his demise, her Press Secretary told bdnews24.com at 5pm Wednesday.

The President was 85.

He breathed his last at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.

Speaker Abdul Hamid, who has been discharging the President’s duties since his departure for Singapore on March 10, said he was shocked.

Zillur Rahman dies - bdnews24.com

 

[gotti]

And just when you think that it's finally over, it turns out to be the wrong person.

Inna Lillahe wa Inna Ilaihe Rajeon

 

[nair]

May his soul Rest In Peace....

 

[Moander]

Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un

 

[monitor]

Md. Zillur Rahman (Bengali: মোঃ জিল্লুর রহমান; 9 March 1929 - 20 March 2013) was the 19th president of bangladesh

 

[acetophenol]

May his soul rest in peace.

Isn't it rare that presidents die when in power?

May his soul rest in peace.

Isn't it rare that presidents die when in power?

 

[Armstrong]

'To Allah we belong & to Him do we return' - RIP !

 

[Parul]

Rest in Peace...

 

[Skallagrim]

May Allah grant him heaven thanks to presidential clemency to the twenty-one murderers sentenced to death!

 

[Bamboo Castle]

President Md Zillur Rahman has died at a Singapore hospital after fighting for life for 11 days.

He breathed his last at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore at 4:47pm Bangladesh time on Wednesday. Mohammad Shafiul Alam, the Secretary to the President, told bdnews24.com's Moinul Hoque Chowdhury.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina condoled his death and said she was sad at his demise, her Press Secretary told bdnews24.com at 5pm.

The President was 84.

Speaker Abdul Hamid, who has been discharging the President’s duties since his departure for Singapore on March 10, said he was shocked.

Before being taken to Singapore, the President was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Mar 9 with respiratory problems.

Life and career

A veteran politician who was Awami League Presidium Member, Zillur Rahman took over as the country's 19th President on Feb 12, 2009 after being elected uncontested.

Born on Mar 9, 1929 at Bhairab Upazila in Kishoreganj, Rahman took to politics during his student days.

He played a significant role in the historic Language Movement in 1952 and the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

A Masters in History from the Dhaka University, he also holds a Law degree from the same organisation.

A lawyer by profession, Rahman won five parliamentary polls in independent Bangladesh from his Kishoreganj (Kuliarchar-Bhairab) constituency. Apart from the ninth parliamentary polls he had also won in 1973, 1986, 1996 and 2001.

He became a member of the then Provincial Assembly of erstwhile East Pakistan in 1970.

Rahman was the General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League during the period 1972-74.

The Awami League leader had been imprisoned for four years after the assassination of the country’s founding leader and first President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975.

He was again thrown behind bars in 1986 while being a sitting MP during the movement for restoration of democracy.

He steered the party when the Awami League President Sheikh Hasina was arrested in 2007 during the military-installed emergency government.

His wife, Ivy Rahman, then Women Affairs Secretary of Awami League, was killed in gruesome grenade attacks on an Awami League rally in Dhaka on Aug 21, 2004.

Zillur Rahman dies - bdnews24.com

President Zillur Rahman no more | The Daily Star

 

[Anubis]

Innalillahi Wa Innailaihi Raziun! :-(