DHAKA,– Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Political
Affairs Adviser HT Imam passed away while undergoing treatment at a city
hospital early hours of today.
HT Imam breathed his last around 1:15am at the Combined Military Hospital
(CMH) here at the age of 82, Awami League Office Secretary Barrister Biplab
Barua confirmed the news in a status through his verified Facebook page.
Funeral and burial plans will be disclosed later, he wrote. HT Imam, the
cabinet secretary in the Mujibnagar Government during the country’s
Liberation War in 1971, was undergoing treatment at the CMH with various age-
related complications including kidney disease.
He was serving as the political advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
since 2014.