Dhaka, Feb. 26 -- Expressing resentment over the state's negligence in taking whereabouts of families of 1, 399 gazetted martyred freedom fighters (FFs) for the past 20 years, Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq-e-Azam ordered the authorities concerned to take measures to address it immediately.

"Even after 20 years since the gazette was published, neither application has been submitted by these families, nor the government has taken any initiative to reach out to them," he said on Tuesday in an interview, reports UNB.

Under the 'Honorarium Distribution Order-2021,' family members of martyred, titled, and wounded FFs are provided benefits through the Bangladesh Freedom Fighters' Welfare Trust, he said.

During the BNP's last tenure, t...