Independence Award of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman reinstated

The interim government has reinstated the posthumous Independence Award bestowed upon Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman.

The Cabinet Division, in a notification signed by its Additional Secretary Mohammad Khaled Rahim, issued here announcing the names of recipients for this year’s Independence Award on Tuesday.

It said the Independence Award given to Shaheed President and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman (posthumously) in 2003 will remain in force.

“The government cancelled the Independence Award (posthumously) given to Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman in 2003 against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s verdict in 2016,” it said.

In this verdict, since there was no direction to cancel the Independence Award, the government has revoked this decision considering Ziaur Rahman’s outstanding contribution to the Great Liberation War, the notification added.