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JP Secy Gen’s father Abul Quashem dies

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 07 January 2016

Dr Abul Quashem Chowdhury, father of Jatiya
Party (JP) Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, died of old-age complications at a Bangkok hospital early Wednesday. He was 86.
He left behind wife, four sons, two daughters and a host of relatives to mourn his death.
Born in 1929 at Kadalpur village in Raozan upazila of Chittagong district, Dr Quashem, also the father-in-law of Rezaul Haq Chowdhury Mushtaq, former president of Chittagong Samity-Dhaka, earned doctorate degree from Calcutta Campbell Medical College (now Medical College, Kolkata) in 1947.
During his professional career from 1948 to 1961, he worked at different hospitals and organisations, including Dhaka Medical College Hospital, World Health Organisation and Chittagong General Hospital as a medical officer.