Sardar Fazlul Karim dead

UNB, Dhaka :Eminent educationist and philosopher Sardar Fazlul Karim died at a city hospital early Sunday. He was 89. Family sources said, Fazlul Karim, who had been suffering from various old age complications, was admitted to Shamarita Hospital few days back. He breathed his last at the intensive care unit of the hospital around 12:45 am.Prof Karim, one of the most prominent teachers of Dhaka University, left behind a host of admirers and well-wishers to mourn his death.Born in a lower middle class family of Barisal in 1925, Prof Karim became a lecturer of DU in 1946 at the age of 21.Involved in progressive politics as a student, he was an “enemy” of the then Pakistan government and spent almost the full twenty-four years of Pakistani rule in jail. Ayub Khan and Monem Khan ensured that he could never return to his teaching job during the Pakistan period.Prof Karim participated in the 58-day hunger strike of political prisoners demanding humane treatment. He was elected a member of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan while in prison. He was brought back to DU immediately after independence.