BNP chairperson’s adviser Sabih Uddin laid to rest

BNP Chairperson's advisory council member and former secretary Sabih Uddin Ahmed was laid to rest in the capital on Tuesday night.

Sabih Uddin, also a former Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, was buried at Banani Graveyard around 8:50pm, BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB.

Earlier, his namaz-e-janaza was held at Gulshan Azad Mosque after Esha prayers.

Before the janaza, BNP Secretray General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir placed a wreath at Sabih Uddin’s coffin as a mark of last respect on behalf of the party.

Sabih Uddin, who had been undergoing treatment at United Hospital after suffering a brain stroke, breathed his last at around 7:35am on Monday at the age of 76.

He is survived by his wife, one son, one daughter and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.

Mirza Fakhrul and Sabih Uddin Ahmed were students of the same batch of Economics Department at Dhaka University and they were close friends in personal life.

Completing his education, Sabih Uddin Ahmed joined the Pakistan Civil Service. After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the information officer of different ministers.

He served as the private secretary to then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia in 1991. Later he returned to the information cadre.

In 2001, Sabih Uddin Ahmed joined the Ministry of Environment and Forests as Secretary. Later he was appointed as Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK.

After retiring as a secretary, Sabih Uddin Ahmed actively joined BNP politics and was appointed as a foreign affairs advisor of the party chairperson.

He became inactive in politics from 2017 as he had been suffering from neurological complications, reports UNB.