PM Hasina gives flats to former footballers, hockey player

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given residential flats to two former national footballers and a hockey player. The footballers are Sheikh Ashraf Ali and the late Monem Munna and hockey player is the late Zahidur Rahman Pushkin.

The Premier handed over the allotment letters of the flats to Ashraf, Munna’s wife Yasmin Monem and Pushkin’s wife Fahmida Rahman at a function held at Ganabhaban in the morning. The flats located in Mirpur in Dhaka were allocated to them at the personal initiatives of PM Hasina for their outstanding contributions to the country’s football and hockey.

Awami League’s Youth and Sports Secretary Harunur Rashid, BFF president Kazi Salahuddin, vice-presidents Kazi Nabil Ahmed, MP, and Abdus Salam Murshedy, MP, and general secretary Abu Nayeem Sohag and senior officials of the Prime Minister’s Office were present on the occasion. Housing and Public Works Secretary Mohammad Shahidullah Khandakar conducted the function.

Apart from the national team, football legend Munna played for the country’s premier sports club Abahani Limited, while Pushkin played hockey for the same team. Ashraf was also a former footballer of Abahani, founded by Shaheed Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.