Former ambassador Ashfaqur Rahman dies at 70

Former ambassador Ashfaqur Rahman who has been suffering from heart ailments has died. He was 70.

The duty manager of the Apollo Hospitals in Dhaka told bdnews24.com he was “brought dead” at the emergency at 5:45pm on Saturday.

He retired as Bangladesh ambassador to China. He was also ambassador to Germany and high commissioner to Singapore in his long diplomatic career.

M Humayun Kabir, a former ambassador, who worked under him at the foreign ministry, told bdnews24.com that he had been suffering from heart problems. “He was a very good and forthcoming officer,” he said.

Rahman was a CSP officer in 1970 of the then Pakistan government. Then he switched to the Foreign Service in independent Bangladesh.

The Diplomatic Correspondents Assassination Bangladesh (DCAB) has condoled his death