Journo Anwarul passes away
Senior journalist and former President of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity M Anwarul Haque died in a city hospital on Friday.
He was 62.
He suffered a massive stroke on Friday morning and was taken to LabAid Hospital in Dhaka where
doctors declared him dead around 6am. Anwarul Haque left behind wife, two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives, friends, colleagues and well-wishers to mourn his death.
He was buried at Azimpur Graveyard after Namaj-e-Janaza at Sobhanbag Mosque after Jumma prayers and on the DRU premises at 3pm.
Anwarul Haque was the Chief Reporter, City Editor, Diplomatic and Defence Correspondent of The Daily Star.
He was also Director of Public Affairs and Communications of BRAC. Prior to joining BRAC in July 2007, the deceased was the Minister (Press) of the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, India.
He was the President of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) for two consecutive terms (2000 and 2001) and the Secretary General of Old Faujians Association, an organisation of the former cadets of Faujdarhat Cadet College.
He also served several national newspapers, including The Daily Star, now-defunct The Morning Sun and The People in various capacities.
He was one of the founding members of Diplomatic Correspondents Association, Bangladesh (DCAB), and the publisher and editor of the Endeavour, one of the country’s first magazines.
A prolific journalist, he had interviewed many world leaders and heads of states including Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter of the USA, John Major of the UK, Dr Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia, Manmohan Singh, IK Gujral, Deve Gowda and Pranab Mukherjee of India, Fidel Ramos and Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, Fuji Mori of Peru, Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, Suleyman Demerial of Turkey, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Yasser Arafat of Palestine and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
