Body of Gaffar Chowdhury may arrive next week

The body of prominent writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury -- best known for writing the lyrics of "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano" -- is likely to arrive in Dhaka next week.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem said: "After the completion of required procedures, we will send his body to Dhaka on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight next week."

Now, the body of Gaffar Chowdhury has been preserved at the Barnet Hospital in London where he, 88, breathed his last on Thursday, according to a press release from Bangladesh High Commission in London.

His namaz-e-janaza was held on Friday after Juma prayers at the Brick Lane Mosque in East London.

After that, Gaffar Chowdhury's body was taken to Shaheed Altaf Ali Park, where people from all walks of life turned up to pay their last respects to him.