Shahanara Abdullah, wife of senior Awami League leader Abul Hasanat Abdullah MP and mother of Barishal City Corporation (BCC) Mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah, passed away at a hospital in the capital on Sunday night. She was 72.   Shahanara Abdullah breathed her last around 11:30pm while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).   Shahanara Abdullah, a cultural activist and social worker, was an eyewitness of the brutal killings on August 15, 1975.    Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and K M Khalid MP, state minister for Cultural Affairs,  expressed their deep shock and sorrow at the death of Shahanara Abdullah.