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Staff Reporter

A civic condolence meeting in memory of eminent journalist and former minister Anwar Zahid will be held at 3pm on August 31 at the National Press Club in the city. The decision came on Thursday from a meeting of the Working Committee to organise the Civic Condolence Meeting.

Earlier, National Civic Condolence Committee in memory of Anwar Zahid was formed on August 16 shortly after Kulkhani of the late journalist. Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) justice Mohammad Abdur Rauf was chosen as convenor of the committee, while Prof Dr Mahbub Ullah as Joint convenor and Secretary General of National Democratic Party Alamgir Majumder as Member secretary.

Among the members of the committee are the Language Movement Veteran Abdul Matin, former Prime Minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed, former Deputy Prime Minister Prof Dr MA Matin, former Vice Chancellors of Dhaka University Prof Moniruzzaman Mia, Prof Emajuddin Ahmed and Dr Anwar Ullah Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor of South East University Dr Shamser Ali, former Adviser to the Caretaker government and journalist Mahbub-ul Alam, poet Al Mahmud, Editor of the monthly Madena Moulana Mohiuddin Khan, Journalists Gias Kamal Chowdhury, Ataus Samad, Alamgir Mohiuddin, Amanullah Kabir, Abul Asad, Gaziul Hasan Khan and Shawkat Mahmud, BNP Joint Secretary General Nazrul Islam Khan, Jama'at-e Islami Assistant Secretary General Kamaruzzaman, former ministers Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Nazimuddin Al Azad, former president of FBCCI Mir Nasir Hossain, Shafiul Alam Pradhan, Comrade Nurul Haque Mahedi and NPP Chairman Shawkat Hossain Nilu.