A Sylhet Court is set to deliver the verdict in the case filed over the attempted murder of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus on March 3, 2018.

A Sylhet court places parents and an uncle of Foyzur Hasan, who attacked Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, on remand for different terms.

While a firestorm of protest and condemnation continues over the knife attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, a section

Protests and condemnations continued to pour in yesterday over the attack on Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, an eminent writer and a professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).

There was slack in security provided to Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Shahjalal University’s Vice Chancellor AKM Farid Uddin says reflecting on the knife attack on the eminent educationist.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the attack on the renowned writer Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is an outcome of the ongoing misdeeds of the government and it will remain as its worst chapter.

Security is not a reality in Bangladesh, says Nuhash Humayun, reflecting on the attack on his uncle – eminent educationist Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader terms the attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal a “conspiracy” and alleges that BNP is patronising the conspirators.

Bangladesh National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Haque urges the authorities concerned to ensure punishment of the culprits who attacked Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal yesterday.

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) authorities file a case with Jalalabad Police Station in connection with the attack on renowned writer Prof Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.