Farooqi to be buried in Panchagarh after 5th Janaza today
Saturday, 30 August 2014
The mortal remains of slain Islamic Front leader and TV show host Maolana Nurul Islam Farooqi have been taken to his ancestral home in Panchagarh district after four Namaj-e-Janazas in Dhaka city. After the fourth Janaza at National Eidgah Maidan on Friday afternoon, an ambulance carrying his coffin started for Naotari village in Boda Upazila in Panchagarh. His elder son Faisal Farooqi said Farooqi would be buried beside his mother at the family graveyard after the last funeral prayer on Saturday. Some miscreants murdered Farooqi in the presence of his family at his East Razabazar residence in the city on Wednesday night. He was a presidium member of Islamic Front, a leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and also the Khatib of High Court Mazar mosque, according to bdnews24.com.