According to the Inter Service Public Relations Directorate, Group Captain Shamsul breathed his last at 4:47 pm at Evercare Hospital in the capital.
He was born in 1947 in Patuakhali district. In 1964, after completing his education in Dhaka, he joined the then Pakistan Air Force Academy at Risalpur in 1964 and was commissioned in the GD(P) branch.
On June 3, 1971, he left his post in West Pakistan and came to Dhaka to join the liberation struggle. But he was arrested soon after his arrival at the Dhaka airport as Pakistan’s law enforcers realized that he would join the liberation war.