PM commissions five modern warships

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday commissioned Bangladesh Navy’s five modern warships -- BNS Umar Farooq, BNS Abu Ubaidah, BNS Prottasha, BNS Darshak and BNS Tallashi -- at Naval Berth-1 in Chattogram.

The Prime Minister commissioned the ships through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban in the capital, reports UNB. 

Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal, on behalf of the Prime Minister, formally handed over the "commissioning forman [statement]" of the ship to the respective captains of the ships at the Naval Berth.

An audio-visual presentation was made in the five ships that included two frigates -- BNS Umar Farooq and BNS Abu Ubaidah --, one corvette --BNS Prottasha -- and two survey ships -- BNS Darshak and BNS Tallashi. Of these, two survey ships were constructed at Khulna Shipyard.

The captains of the five ships -- Captain AM Shamsul Haque of Prottasha, Captain Gazi Golam Morshed of Umar Farooq, Captain Ashrafuzzaman of Abu Ubaidah, Lt Commander Kamrul Ahsan of Tallashi and Lt Commander Nazmus Sakib Sourav -- received the Commissioning Forman.