Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman, a former Member of Parliament for Faridganj and former president of the National Press Club, passed away at his residence this afternoon (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un).
He had suffered a fall in the bathroom at his home. He was subsequently rescued and taken to Evercare Hospital, where the attending physicians declared him dead.
Journalist Shafiqur Rahman's ancestral home is at the Miyaji House in Balithuba village of Faridganj upazila in Chandpur district. His father's name was Moulvi Abdul Hamid and his mother's name was Ayesha Khatun. He began his education at an initial madrasa and pursued his studies across madrasas, schools, colleges, and universities alike. He first obtained his Kamil degree in Hadith from Faridganj Madidia Kamil Madrasa in 1965. Subsequently, he passed his HSC from Chandpur Government College in 1967, and later earned his MA degree in Bengali from the University of Dhaka in 1971.
