9th BD Games Eighteen stars to relay with torch

Eighteen former sports stars will carry the torch of the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games from Tungipara in Gopalganj to the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, a meeting of the media and publicity committee of the games decided yesterday.

The meeting decided that the torch will be lit by the Bangladesh Olympic Association president and Army chief General Aziz Ahmed on the morning of March 30 at the Bangabandhu Mausoleum Complex in Tungipara and will be handed over to the association's secretary general Syed Shahed Reza.  The torch will be received at the BNS by golfer Siddikur Rahman and swimmer Mahfuza Khatun Shila.