Holiday editor Sayed Kamaluddin dies

News Desk :

English-language weekly Holiday editor Sayed Kamaluddin died at a hospital in the capital on Tuesday. He was 84.
He left behind two sons to mourn his death.

He was suffering from kidney related complications.

He was buried at Banani graveyard after Isha prayers following his namaz-e-janaza at the Dhaka Cantonment Board Jame Mosque (Allahu Mosque), his family members said.

Senior journalist Kamaluddin joined the weekly in 2005.

He also worked as minister (press) for Bangladesh mission in Washington DC.

Kamal, former press minister of Bangladesh to Washington DC, began his career with the Daily Azad in 1961.
Till the closure of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review in 2004, he worked with the reputed weekly as Dhaka correspondent and freelance writer.

He also worked as correspondent of The Financial Times, London, the Economist, London, and the Economist Intelligence Unit in addition to the FEER job.

Returning from Washington in 2004, he wrote for the Financial Express, the New Age, the Holiday and the Economic and Business Review of Dawn, Pakistan.

Kamal joined the BBC World Service as Dhaka correspondent in 1974 before joining the Agence France-Presse, the French news agency.