BNP vice chairman Khandaker Mahbub passes away

Bangladesh desk: BNP vice chairman and also former president of Supreme Court Bar Association Advocate Khandker Mahbbub Hossain passed away at a hospital in Dhaka on Saturday night.

He was 84.

Advocate Khandker Mahbbub Hossain breathed his last at about 11:00pm while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital, said his junior lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir.

On Wednesday, the BNP leader was put on a ventilator at Evercare a day after being admitted there with a respiratory problem.

Mahbub, former vice-president of the Bangladesh Bar Council and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was one of the lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.