Aleem passes away
Prominent sports personality Kazi Abdul Aleem died of heart attack at 1:30pm in the city yesterday.
He was 78.
Aleem, the national award recipient, was admitted to the Trauma Centre 18 days back after he slipped at the stairs. He left behind two sons and number of admirers to mourn his death.
He was a champion athlete in the then East Pakistan for nine consecutive years. Aleem, who received the UNESCO sports award in 2004, served as the principal of Mohammadpur Physical Training College for eighteen years before retiring in 1987.
Different sports federations expressed their deep shock over the death of the renowned sportsman, who also had written fifty books.
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