Enayetullah Khan's second death anniversary today

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FE Report
The second death anniversary of Enayetullah Khan - founding editor of the daily New Age and editor-in-chief of the weekly Holiday - will be observed today (Saturday).
Enayetullah Khan, a renowned journalist of the country, died in Toronto, Canada on November 10, 2005 at the age of 66.
He had been suffering from cancer of the pancreas.
He started his career as a journalist at the then Pakistan Observer in 1959.
He went on to found the weekly Holiday in August 1965, before taking over as editor of the weekly in 1966.
He founded the daily New Age as its editor and publisher in June 2003.
He was also the editor of the Bangladesh Times from 1975 to 1977.
He was awarded the Ekushey Padak for excellence in journalism.
Known for his democratic activism, Khan was at the forefront of the Buddhijibi Nidhan Tathyanusandhan Committee instituted on December 18, 1971 to investigate murders of intellectuals in the terminal days of the war of independence in 1971 by the Al-Badar and AI-Shams -- the killer wings of the Jamaat-e-Islami.
He was a Bangladesh government minister (1977-78) and ambassador to China, North Korea, Cambodia and Myanmar (1984-89).
A Master's in Philosophy from Dhaka University, in his student days he held leadership positions as general secretary of Ananda Mohan College Students' Union in Mymensingh, member of the Dhaka University Students' Union (1958-59), and vice-president of Dhaka Hall (now Shahidullah Hall) Students' Union (1959-60).
He was president of the National Press Club (1973-76) and the Dhaka Club (1984-85).