Noted actor Farooque’s body reaches Dhaka from Singapore

The body of legendary actor and parliamentary member Akbar Hossain Pathan, popularly known as Farooque, has reached Dhaka from Singapore. 

A special US-Bangla Airlines flight carrying the body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 8am on Tuesday.

Md Kamrul Islam, General Manager (Public Relations) of the airlines, said the flight departed from Singapore for Dhaka at 5:40am (local time).

The actor breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on Monday morning. 

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He had been suffering from different ailments and undergoing treatment at the hospital for a long time.

He was known as “Mia Bhai” to mass people. He appeared in over 150 films in a career spanning more than five decades. Most of his films were commercially and critically successful. 

During Operation Searchlight, 25 March 1971, he participated in the first resistance of the liberation war in Malitola, Old Dhaka as second in command of their own guerrilla force commanded by ‘Nader Gunda’. 

Farooque, also a film producer and businessman, was elected MP from Dhaka-17 constituency in the 2018 National Election.