Bangladesh, April 27 -- The 64th death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed across the country today in a befitting manner. AK Fazlul Huq, widely known as Sher-e-Bangla (Tiger of Bengal) or Huq Saheb, died on 27 April 1962 in Dhaka.

He was born on 26 October 1873 at his maternal uncle's house in Saturia, then a remote village in the southern part of Bakerganj, now Jhalakathi district in Barishal Division. His ancestral home was at Chakhar, a village around 14 miles from Barishal town.

Fazlul Huq was a prominent public leader who held several key political positions, including Mayor of Calcutta (1935), Prime Minister of undivided Bengal (1937-1943), Chief Minister of East Bengal (1954), Home Minister of Pa...