People from all walks of life paid their last respects to noted writer and freedom fighter Begum Mushtari Shafi at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Various organizations including Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Workers Party of Bangladesh, Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and Udichi Shilpi Gosthi paid homage to the wife of a martyr.
During the Liberation War, her husband Dr Mohammad Shafi and her younger brother Ehsanul Haque Ansari were killed by the Pakistani occupation army.
She then joined Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra as a voice artiste to keep the spirit of the nation alive during the nine months of the Liberation War.
She received the Begum Rokeya Award in 2020.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud laid a wreath at the coffin of Shafi Mushtari.
Later, her first namaz-e-janaza was performed at the Central Mosque of Dhaka University.
The body will be kept at Central Shaheed Minar of Chittagong at 9:30am on Wednesday, according to media reports.
Also Read- Writer, freedom fighter Mushtari Shafi passes away
She will be given guard of honour by the state at the premises of Central Shaheed Minar and then her namaz-e-janaza would be held at Jamiatul Falah Mosque Ground.
The eminent writer will be laid to eternal rest at Chaitanya Goli Graveyard in Chittagong.
The 84-year-old breathed her last at 4pm on Monday afternoon while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka, her son-in-law Abdullah Jafar told the media.
Mushtari Shafi, one of the organizers of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee and Chittagong unit president of Bangladesh Udichi Shilpi Gosthi, had been suffering from various complications, including kidney and blood infections.
She was brought to Dhaka from Chittagong on December 2. After recovering a little, she returned home and was readmitted to the CMH on December 14.