Attack on Prof Zafar Iqbal not isolated incident: educationists

The capital Dhaka and significant urban areas of the nation today saw a series of dissents unequivocally denouncing the assault on extremely popular essayist and educationist Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal as educationists and common society individuals opined that the assault showed malicious powers dynamic nearness in the nation. 

As individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds rioted the nation over requesting excellent discipline to the aggressors, the scholastics and experts said the assault was not a disconnected episode but rather an assault on freethinking and secularism. 

Giving his response to the assault on Prof Zafar Former Vice-Chancellor Professor of Dhaka University Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique stated, "This is an arranged assault on a freethinker.....Prof Zafar Iqbal is an illuminated and skilled author. He has popularity based esteems and additional normal human characteristics." 

He said the administration ought to be caution against every single abhorrence constrain as the assault on Prof Zafar Iqbal was not a confined episode. 

Previous Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) Professor Dr AK Azad Chowdhury censured the assault on Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal and requested commendable discipline to the guilty parties. 

"This assault isn't only on Prof Jafar Iqbal...... Or maybe it is an assault on erudite people who have confidence in maintaining fair esteems and soul of the War of freedom," he said and asked the administration to discover the genuine guilty parties who are engaged with the uncouth episode. 

Prominent PC researcher and a teacher of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Mohammad Kaykobad stated, "This isn't just an assault on Prof Zafar Iqbal yet in addition it is the assault on the whole country. He is a notable figure to the more youthful individuals who harbor 

love, empathy and warmth for him (Zafar)." 

"I have never observed a devoted individual like him. He gigantically adores the nation and its kin. Prof Zafar Iqbal has a considerable measure of commitments to advancing information based projects like Math Olympic rivalry," he included. 

Wishing his initial recuperation, Prof Kaykobad said the legislature would take satisfactory activities to find fear exercises from the nation. 

The educationists communicated their judgments over the offensive assault on Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal and requested excellent discipline to its culprits. They wished early recuperation of Prof Zafar Iqbal. 

College Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan today unequivocally denounced the blade assault on prominent essayist and educationist Dr Mohammed Zafar Iqbal, requesting model discipline to the guilty parties. 

In an announcement, Professor Mannan said the whole country has been profoundly stunned at the horrifying assault on Zafar Iqbal. 

"The culprits must be conveyed to equity soon," the UGC executive stated, requesting a model discipline to the aggressors associated with the deplorable demonstration. He additionally wished Iqbal's initial recuperation. 

Bad habit Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University (JU) Professor Dr Farzana Islam today censured the assault on prestigious author and Professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal. 

Communicating profound worry over the episode, Professor Farzana stated, "Such sort of assault on educated people comes as an endeavor to stop the act of free reasoning and dynamic contemplations." 

The VC requested stern activity against the assailants. She stated, "The nation and its kin are with Professor Iqbal." 

The few association's units of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) today emphatically dissented the horrifying assault on prominent essayist and educationist Professor Dr Mohammad Zafar Iqbal and requested quick capture and model discipline to the culprits. 

The BRUR units of social associations 'Ranon', "Gungun' and 'Udichhi Shilpi Gosthi' together framed a human chain took after by book perusing program on the Sheik Rasel square on the grounds challenging the assault. 

In Chittagong, individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds, for the most part proficient bodies, educators, understudies dissented the assault on the famous essayist Prof Zafar Iqbal. 

The dissenters sorted out parades on their individual instructive organizations grounds as a component of challenges against the assault on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. 

Individuals from common society, diverse socio-social associations, understudies and writers framed human chains to dissent the assault in various territories in the city. 

In Chittagong University (CU), the understudies and instructors additionally framed a human chain before CU Bangabandhu Chattar requesting excellent discipline to the offenders. 

Iqbal, leader of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) office and furthermore a teacher of Computer Science and Engineering office at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), who went under the blade assault on the college grounds yesterday, is presently experiencing treatment at the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here.