Zohra Tajuddin buried in husband's grave

Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, who shepherded the Awami League during troubled times after the 1975 changeover, has been laid to rest at the grave of her husband, Bangladesh's first Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed.

The senior Awami League leader was buried at the Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Sunday evening.

A police team accorded her Guard of Honour.

Zohra had breathed her last on Friday while undergoing treatment at Dhaka's United Hospital. She was 80.

She had assumed the Awami League's helm at turbulent times after the assassination of the nation’s architect Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

After leading the party from the front as its convenor, she handed it over to Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina after the latter returned home several years later.

Zohra and Tajuddin Ahmed had tied the knot in 1959.

Tajuddin Ahmed and three other national leaders -- Syed Nazrul Islam, M Mansur Ali and AHM Qamruzzaman -- were killed on Nov 3, 1975 by a group of army officers.

Her son Tanjim Ahmed better known as Sohel Taj, a former State Minister for Home, daughter Simin Hossain Rimi, an Awami League MP from Gazipur-4, Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali, among others, had attended the funeral.