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Gaziul Haque passes away

Star Report
Language movement veteran Gaziul Haque passed away yesterday afternoon at city's Square Hospital after prolonged illness. He was 80.
Gaziul had been suffering from diabetes,FROM PAGE 1
heart disease and old-age complications.
His first namaj-e-janaja will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 10:00am today.
After the funerals, the body will lie in state on the premises of the Central Shahid Minar from 10:30am to 11:30am for people to show respects to the great national hero.
Later, his body will be sent to his hometown Bogra buried at his family graveyard after the final janaza.
In a condolence message. President Zillur Rahman expressed his deep shock saying the death of Gaziul Haque is an irreparable loss for the nation.
"He played a significant role in all movements of democracy' and peace imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation," he said.
In a similar message, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the demise of "the great patriotic educationist and intellectual is an irreparable loss to the nation."
PM's Press Secretary Abdul Kalam Azad said Hasina went to Square Hospital to see the deceased as his death news spread. She stood in silence for some time.
The prime minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and expressed sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.
Leader of the opposition and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a message said the nation will forever remember the outstanding role of Haque in building the nation’s history.
Born on February 13, 1929, in Nishchintopur village of ChagolnaiaThana in Noakhali district, Gaziul Haque chaired the meeting at the Dhaka University premises on February 21,1952, from which the decision to violate Section 144 was made.
Gaziul Haque, a member of Awami League's advisory council and founding Trustee of Bangabandhu Memorial Trust and its Treasurer, also took part in the mass upsurge of 1969 and anti-autocratic movement in 1990.
Haque, a valiant freedom fighter and a lawy er by profession, was admitted to the hospital on I uesday morning.