Gaffar Chy's burial in Mirpur today
Saturday, 28 May 2022
Eminent Bangladeshi-British writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will be laid to rest at Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur today (Saturday), reports UNB.
Gaffar Chowdhury's final journey will start from London in a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight and the body will reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:00am today (Saturday), the ministry of foreign affairs has said.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque will receive Gaffar Chowdhury's mortal remains at the airport on behalf of the Bangladesh government.
His body will be kept at Central Shaheed Minar from 1:00 pm to 03:00 pm to facilitate people to pay their last tributes.
His Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at Dhaka University Central Mosque at 03.30pm and then the mortal remains will be taken to Jatiya Press Club (JPC) for the journalists to pay homage at 04:00 pm.
Gaffar Chowdhury will be buried at Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur at 05.30 pm.