Learn better to serve nation

Eminent writer and scientist Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at a meeting in the town on Friday urged the students to develop studying habit and learn about the Liberation War to change the country for the better.

Zafar Iqbal, professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, came to Pirojpur by launch with his family members on Friday morning.

Zafar, his elder sister Sufia Haidar, younger brother cartoonist Ahsan Habib, wife Dr Yasmeen Haque and children went to Pirojpur municipality graveyard to visit the grave of his father Md Faizur Rahman Ahmed, a Liberation War martyr.

Faizur Rahman, then serving as a police officer in Pirojpur, was killed by the Pakistan occupation army on May 4 in 1971.

Zafar Iqbal and his family members also placed wreath on the martyrs' memorial beside the Baleshwar river, where hundreds of people were brutally killed by the Pakistan army in 1971.

Later addressing the students at Gopalkrishna Swadhinata Mancha in the town in the afternoon, Zafar said Bangladesh is already doing what was once considered impossible and so, our country's great prosperity is not a far cry.

"Once I could not answer when students asked me why the cars of war criminals bear our national flag. But now wee see the trial of the war criminals and execution of the verdicts," he said, urging the students to love the country like mother.

He answered different questions asked by students.

He also expressed happiness to see the roads in Pirojpur town named after freedom fighters.