Cabinet mourns death of Ishaq Mia

The cabinet today adopted an obituary reference expressing profound shock and grief at the death of M Ishaq Mia, an elderly politician of Chittagong and member of the Advisory Council of the Bangladesh Awami League. 

The obituary reference was adopted in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. 

Cabinet Secretary M Shafiul Alam, while briefing reporters after the meeting, said the cabinet recalled the contribution of Ishaq Mia to politics as an organiser of the War of Liberation, member of Gono Parishad in 1970 and a member of fourth Jatiya Sangsad. 

The cabinet prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed profound sympathy to the bereaved family members.

Ishaq Mia breathed his last this morning while undergoing treatment at a port city hospital.

Source: bss