The officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) paid their last respect to former secretary, diplomat Mohiuddin Ahmed, also an organiser of the Liberation War.
Mohiuddin Ahmed’s s body was brought to his former workplace, the Foreign Service Academy, Tuesday morning where his Namaz-e-Janaza was held.
PM’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury , State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, among others, attended the janaza.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen could not attend the janaza as he is visiting flood-hit Sylhet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said a press release.
The body of late Mohiuddin Ahmed was then taken to his village home in Feni for burial.
Mohiuddin Ahmed, 80, passed away Monday at his Uttara home in Dhaka after a prolonged illness.
During the war of liberation in 1971, Mohiuddin Ahmed, the first of the Bengali diplomats working in the Pakistani embassies in Europe, took a stand for the independence of Bangladesh leaving Pakistan. He left the post of Second Secretary of the Pakistan High Commission in London in 1971 and worked full-time for the war of liberation in the United Kingdom.
During his career, Mohiuddin served in different capacities at Bangladesh missions in Delhi, Geneva, Jakarta, Jeddah, and New York and as a secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and principal at the Foreign Service Academy.
Source: United News of Bangladesh