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

Sabihuddin, also a former Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, was returned to the earth at the 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 secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir placed a wreath at Sabihuddin’s coffin as a mark of last respect on behalf of the party.

Sabihuddin, 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, a son, a daughter and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.

Mirza Fakhrul and Sabihuddin Ahmed were particularly close throughout their life, having been students of the same batch of the Economics Department at Dhaka University and they remained close friends.

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

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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 Forest and Environment as Secretary.  Later he was appointed as Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK.

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

He became inactive in politics from 2017 after developing neurological complications.