MA Wazed Miah’s birthday today
The 76th birthday of eminent nuclear scientist and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s husband Dr MA Wazed Miah is being observed on Thursday.
Different political parties and socio-cultural bodies have chalked out elaborate programmes in the capital city and Rangpur in observance of his birthday.
On February 16 in 1942, Wazed Miah popularly and affectionately called “Sudha Miah” was born at a respectable Muslim family of Laldighi Fatehpur village under Pirganj upazila in Rangpur district.
He breathed his last in Dhaka on May 9 in 2009 and was buried at family graveyard in his native village at Pirganj.
