He says the RAB operation running jointly with the army will not stop until the separatists choose the path of peace
The noted reciter died after being taken off life support at Mt Sinai St Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan on Saturday. He was 65.
An architect by profession, he was declared clinically dead on Friday, after he was admitted to the hospital for failure of heart valves.
His coffin wrapped in Bangladesh's flag was kept at the city's Jamaica Muslim Centre for his namaz-e-janaza where people poured in to tribute on Saturday evening local time.
The state is bearing the expenses for transporting Arif's body back home where he will be buried after a state ceremony, said Shahed Ahmed, Bangladesh's Vice Consul General in New York.