Anwara Khan dies

Anwara Khan, wife of National Professor MR Khan, died of old-age complications in Central Hospital in Dhaka at 9:10am on Saturday at the age of seventy-seven.

Anwara Khan is survived by a daughter and her husband.

Her namaz-e-janaza was held on the Central Hospital premises at 4:30pm.

She will be buried at her family graveyard at village Rasulpur in Satkhira on October 10.

Anwara Khan was born at Rasulpur on November 9,1933. She studied at Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School in Kolkata and then in Kolkata Ripon College, now Surendranath College and completed bachelor's degree.

Through establishing Dr MR Khan and Anwara Khan Trust, she funded child healthcare, education, initiatives to establish schools, hospitals and scholarship awarding, said a release.

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