Mohila Awami League’s ex-GS Pinu Khan passes away
Staff Correspondent
Awami League’s former lawmaker from reserved women’s seat and Bangladesh Mohila Awami League’s former general secretary (GS) Pinu Khan passed away while undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Medical College Hospital in the early hours of today. She was 71.
She left behind two sons, relatives and a host of well-wishers and admirers to mourn her death.
Pinu Khan will be laid to rest at Banani graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza after Zuhr prayers tomorrow.
Born on February 2, 1952, in Dhaka, Pinu Khan was a valiant freedom fighter. Her husband late Shamsul Alam Babu was also a valiant freedom fighter as well as one of the organisers of the liberation war. Martyred intellectual Dr Bahauddin Ahmed was her father-in-law.
Being engaged in politics from student life, Pinu Khan was elected joint general secretary of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League in 2003 and general secretary in 2009.
As a nominee of Bangladesh Awami League, she was elected lawmaker from reserved women’s seats in the 9th and 10th Jatiya Sangsad.
Pinu Khan, a noted dancer, served as the principal of Bangladesh Bulbul Lalitakala Academy for a long. Besides, she was engaged with different social and cultural organisations.
