The New Nation - Internet Edition

'National Seminar 2008' of Prime Islami Life Insurance was held on November 18 last at BIAM auditorium on 'Life Insurance for human Welfare: Islamic Perspective.'

Firoz Ahmed, Secretary of Commerce, was present as chief guest at the seminar. It was presided over by Principal Sayeed Kamal Uddin Zafri, Chairman, Shariah Council, Prime Islami Life Insurance Ltd. Professor A K M AbuI Kader, Dean, Faculty of Shariah and Islamic Studies, International Islami University, Chittagong, presented the key note paper. The seminar was also attended by Mohammad Shah Alam, Deputy Managing Director. Habibur Rahman, Company Secretary and SEVP and other senior administrative and development officers of the company.

Shah Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Professor, Department of Economics, Rajshahi University, Professor M Mujahidul Islam, Chairman, Department of Banking, Dhaka University, Dr Syeda Sultana Rajia Associate professor, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Kazi Md. Mortuza Ali, Managing Director, of the company took part in the discussion.

In his speech, commerce secretary Firoz Ahmed elaborated various steps taken by the government to promulgate new insurance ordinance, insurance regulatory authority, and Takaful Act ordinance. Chairman of the seminar, Principal Sayeed Kamal Uddin Zafri told that existing Islami Insurance in Bangladesh is not just Islamization of western world introduced insurance, rather it is the developed stage of Islamic Insurance introduced in the period of 'Great Prophet'(SM) & Kholafai Rashedin.