President, PM Hasina pay homage to Armed Forces martyrs
President M Abdul Hamid and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday paid tribute to the members of Armed Forces, who made their supreme sacrifices during the War of Liberation, by placing a wreath at the Shikha Anirban in Dhaka Cantonment on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2019.
The President, also the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, placed wreath at the altar of Shikha Anirban (eternal flame) in the morning and stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of respect to memories of the martyrs, reports BSS.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina also paid her tributes to the martyred members of Bangladesh Armed Forces placing a wreath at the Shikha Anirban.
After laying the wreath, she stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the armed forces martyrs.
A smartly-turned out contingent drawn from Army, Navy and Air Force presented a guard of honour at that time, while bugle played the last post.
Later, president Abdul Hamid and prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also in-charge of the defence ministry, signed the visitors’ book kept on the premises of Shikha Anirban.
Earlier, on their arrival at Shikha Anirban, the president and the prime minister were received by chiefs of three services and Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD) lieutenant general Md Mahfuzur Rahman received them.
After the wreath-placing ceremony, the prime minister went to the Armed Forces Division (AFD) where the three chiefs of the armed forces made a courtesy call on her.
On her arrival at the AFD, Sheikh Hasina was received by the PSO and director generals of the AFD.
On this day during the War of Liberation in 1971, the Bangladesh Armed Forces, comprising Army, Navy and Air Force, came into being and launched an all-out attack on the Pakistani occupation forces which sped up the victory in the liberation war.
After the independence of the country, this historic day is observed as the Armed Forces Day every year.