MoFA officials pay tributes to ex-secretary Mohiuddin Ahmed

The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) paid their last respect to former secretary and diplomat Mohiuddin Ahmed, also an organiser of the Liberation War, reports UNB.

Mohiuddin Ahmed's s body was brought to his former workplace, the Foreign Service Academy, Tuesday morning where his Namaz-e-Janaza was held.

PM's energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, among others, attended the janaza.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen could not attend the janaza as he was visiting flood-hit Sylhet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said a press release.

The body of Mohiuddin Ahmed was then taken to his village home in Feni for burial. Mohiuddin Ahmed, 80, passed away Monday at his Uttara home in Dhaka after a prolonged illness.

During the war of liberation in 1971, Mohiuddin Ahmed, the first of the Bengali diplomats working in the Pakistani embassies in Europe, took a stand for the independence of Bangladesh leaving Pakistan.