<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Awami League Advisory Council member and Bangabandhu Parishad President Dr SA Malek.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">In a condolence message, Sheikh Hasina said that Dr SA Malek, who was also former political adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former lawmaker from Faridpur-1 constituency, was also a very close associate of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She recalled that Dr SA Malek played a very important role in all the movements and struggles for the establishment of independent Bangladesh, including the language movement and the six-point movement under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sheikh Hasina added that he participated in the Great War of Liberation and played an active role in all the political activities of that time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dr S A Malek died of massive heart attack at a hospital in the city on Tuesday night at the age of 86. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>