Former army chief and valiant freedom fighter KM Shafiullah died on Sunday morning at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. He was 91. Shafiullah breathed his last at 8:45am at the hospital, said Rashadul Alam Khan, assistant director at Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) Directorate. The former army chief, also commander of sector 3 during the Liberation War, was admitted to CMH on January 2  with various health complications. Joules Power MD Nuher Khan laid to rest His first Namaj-e-Janaza was held at Rupganj after Zuhr prayers. He will be buried at Military Graveyard at Banani following his second Namaz-e-Janaza at Dhaka Cantonment. KM Saifullah was born on September 2 in 1934, in Rupganj of Narayanganj. He served as the chief of army staff from 1972 to 1975 and served as ambassador in Malaysia, Canada, Sweden, and the UK. Veteran actor Prabir Mitra passes away He led the S-Force and earned ‘Bir Uttam’ title for his valiant role in the Liberation War.

Former army chief and BNP leader Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman along with his wife tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. They were admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital the same day, Mahbub told UNB on Tuesday. Read:BNP leader Nipun Roy freed on bail He, however, said they still have no major complications and symptoms of the virus. Mahbub, in his early 80s, urged all to pray for their speedy recovery. Read: Govt 'doing business' over Covid vaccine: BNP Mahbub’s wife, Anarkali Farhad Banu Nagina Amin, is the elder sister of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. After retiring from the Bangladesh Army, Mahbub had joined BNP and was elected MP with the party ticket from Dinajpur-2 seat in the eighth parliamentary election. Read:BNP's Aslam Chowdhury gets bail in two 2013 sabotage cases He was also made a member of BNP’s standing committee, the highest policymaking body of the party. Mahbub, however, quit the party and politics in September 2019 on health grounds.