Sardar Fazlul Karim no more

Eminent scholar Sardar Fazlul Karim passed away on Sunday at the age of 89. He breathed his last at a city hospital around 12.45am, family sources said. Dr Shakeel Akhtar, the son of late Sardar Fazlul Karim, said his father was suffering from ‘multiple organ failure’. Karim was hospitalised a few days ago with cardiac complications but as his condition deteriorated doctors put him under intensive care. Born in 1925 in Barisal, Karim is famed for his many scholarly books on philosophy and translations of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Engels. He became a lecturer of Philosophy at Dhaka University in 1946 at the age of 21. But during Pakistan era, he was deemed an enemy by the Pakistani authorities for his progressive politics. He served more than 10 years in jail in phases during the Pakistan rule. He was elected a member of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 1954 from prison, according to a news agency.