Following the July mass rebellion, the interim government formed on 8 August 2024 announced that it would take action against persons serving in government service using fake freedom fighter certificates. Farooq-e-Azam assumed responsibility as advisor to the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on 14 August and the next day, announced measures against such fraudulent claims. […]
In addition, members of the Armed Forces, East Pakistan Rifles (EPR), Police, Mukti Bahini, Government of Bangladesh in Exile (Mujibnagar Government) and its recognized forces, Naval Commandos, Kilo Force and Ansar will also be recognized as Bir Muktijodha. Furthermore, all women (Birangona) who were victims of atrocities by the occupying Pakistani forces and their collaborators […]
The government has started another round of verification of the list of freedom fighters. Liberation War Affairs Minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmed said on Monday that the wrongly included persons would be removed in a phased manner. Speaking to reporters at the Secretariat after a meeting with Prime Minister Tariq Rehman at the Cabinet Division, the […]
Here are some comments on the quota issue based on past experience and expertise. During Bangabandhu's time, when the freedom fighter quota was introduced, it was not linked to the spirit of the Liberation War. The interim recruitment policy of 1972 had a 30 percent quota for freedom fighters. It was called “interim” because the […]
Amar Bangladesh Party, AB Party, on Tuesday organized a discussion meeting followed by an Iftar program celebrating the Independence Day at Bijoy 71 intersection, close to the central office of the AB party in the capital. Veteran freedom fighter and president of Rashtravadi Muktijodha Dal, a BNP-affiliated forum for freedom fighters, Ishtiaq Aziz Ulfat addressed […]
Sajjad said his father and four brothers are gazetted freedom fighters. But they are facing a problem because the government has fixed the minimum age limit of a freedom fighter as 12 years and 6 months. He claimed that he was 14 years old during the liberation war but his school headmaster reduced his age. […]
Jamuka member and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Liberation War Affairs Ministry, Shahjahan Khan, in a meeting on July 19 last year, had recommended adding the name of Hemayat Uddin from Baufal of Patuakhali to the gazette. “The applicant fought from Khalil Force camp in Madaripur district,” he wrote in the application. When […]
Abdul Momen further said, the meeting discussed various issues including the status of labor rights in Bangladesh, protection of religious freedom, increasing trade and economic cooperation, permanent solution to the Rohingya issue, return of convicted killer of Bangabandhu Rashid Chowdhury. Murder case, who fled to the United States, and other issues of bilateral cooperation. In […]
The sub-committee has to travel from district to district, talk to freedom fighters, enlist Razakars and send their names to the Jati Muktijodh Parishad – Jamuka (National Council of Freedom Fighters). The sub-committee has held four meetings so far and discussed what can be done to prepare the Razakar list. He also discussed the possible […]
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 […]