Bangladesh, Nov. 10 -- The Qulkhwani of former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka will be held on November 15 instead of today (Sunday) on the Brothers Union Club ground in Gopibagh of the city after Asr prayers, reports UNB.
The valiant freedom fighter, who had long been suffering from cancer, died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on November 4.
His body was brought home from the USA on Thursday. He was laid to rest with state honour at his mother's grave in Jurain graveyard on November 7.
BNP urged everyone to attend the Qulkhwani and offer a munajat seeking eternal peace of the departed soul. Khoka, also a former minister and MP, is survived by his wife Ismat Ara, daughter Sarika Sadeque, sons ...