BSS-Terminated Journalists' Forum in a statement yesterday appealed to the affluent people of the society to extend financial help to the ailing former senior reporter of BSS Abul Bashar.

In a statement, terminated journalists of the government-run news agency said that Bashar was one of the 27 journalists who fell victim to the vindictive politics of the alliance government and were terminated from their jobs.

They urged all to extend cooperation to Bashar who is suffering from serious liver disease.

Harun Habib, Enamul Hoque Chowdhury, Ajit Kumar Sarker, Azam Sarwar Chowdhury, Afzal Hossain, Halim Azad, Kanai Chakrabarti, Shahnaz Begum, Nure Jannat Akhter Seema, Mahfuza Jesmin, Abu Naser Rajib, Madhusudan Mandal, Ayub Bhuiyan, Swapan Basu, Bithi Zaman Chowdhury, Obaidul Gani and Md Al Mamun signed the statement.