JP presidium member Fakir Ashraf no more
Saturday, 18 July 2015
Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad) presidium member Fakir Ashraf died of cancer in a hospital in Uttara in Dhaka on Friday. Family sources said Fakir Ashraf, 76, also a former Air Customs official and journalist, had been suffering from cancer for long. His body was taken to his home district Netrakona from Dhaka in the afternoon. His Namaj-e-Janaza was held in Netrakona after Asr prayers. Hundreds of people, including district unit JP convener Advocate Liakot Ali Khan and BNP’s district unit president Ashraf Uddin Khan, joined his Janaza. He was buried in his village, Challish Kahniya under Barhatta Upazila of Netrakona, after Janaza. Fakir Ashraf, former senior assistant editor of the Daily Azad, breathed his in Lubana Hospital in the morning, according to a news agency.