Tareque, Mishuk remembered

Noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, popularly known as Mishuk Munier, were remembered at different programmes yesterday on the fifth anniversary of their tragic death in a road accident in Ghior upazila of the district.

Tareque, Mishuk and three others died and four people including Tareque's wife Catherine Masud were injured as a Chuadanga-bound bus from Dhaka collided with the Manikganj-bound microbus carrying them at Joka on August 13 in 2011.

Tareque-Mishuk Smriti Sangrakkhan Parishad in Manikganj, Manikganj Press Club, Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Prothom Alo Bandhusava and several socio-cultural organisations jointly organised the programmes including discussion, human chain, and film screening at Joka, the accident spot on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Ghior.

They placed wreaths at the temporary set-up of Tareque Masud-Mishuk Munier memorial at around 11:00am and then formed a human chain beside the highway.

Speakers at the programme demanded setting up of a memorial plaque at the spot, construction of road divider from Nabinagar to Paturia and a rail line between Dhaka, Manikganj and Paturia ferry terminal.

They also demanded exemplary punishment of the driver of the killer bus through speedy trial.