Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today strongly condemned the attack on renowned writer and Professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet Dr Muhammad Jafar Iqbal.
"Simultaneously, the prime minister directed the authorities concerned to track down the culprits involved in the attack and bring them to book," PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS.
The premier, he said, is enquiring regularly about Jafar Iqbal, who is undergoing treatment at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
Zafar Iqbal was stabbed by an unidentified youth on the SUST campus in Sylhet this afternoon.
Source: BSS