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People bade Abdur Razzak a teary farewell as the frontline organiser of the Liberation War was laid to rest at Banani Graveyard with state honour on Monday afternoon. A smartly turned out contingent of the police gave a state honour as bugles played the Last Post before the body was lowered into the grave at ... Read more

Burial today Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Central Shaheed Minar yesterday to bid farewell to Abdur Razzak, one of the organisers of the Liberation War, hours after his body was flown back home from London. The veteran Awami League leader breathed his last in a London hospital on Friday, drawing to a ... Read more

Veteran Awami League leader Abdur Razzak, one of the key organisers of Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, breathed his last at a London hospital yesterday, thus bringing a 50-year illustrious career in politics to a close. He was 69. Razzak, who was considered a “living history” of the birth of Bangladesh, was suffering