Ziaur Rahman's Independence Award reinstated
It was withdrawn back in 2016
The interim government has reinstated the posthumous Independence Award bestowed upon the late president and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman.
The Cabinet Division announced the decision in a notification announcing the names of recipients for this year's Independence Award today (11 March).
It said the then government cancelled the Independence Award (posthumous) given to martyred president Ziaur Rahman in 2003 in the backdrop of the Supreme Court's verdict in 2016.
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Since there was no direction to cancel the Independence Award given to him in that verdict, the interim government has revoked the decision to do so considering his extraordinary contribution to the Liberation War of 1971, it added.
A cabinet committee on national awards in 2016 had to withdraw the award bestowed on Ziaur Rahman, who was the Liberation War Sector Commander.
The Swadhinata Padak, Bangladesh's highest civilian award, was introduced in 1977 when Ziaur Rahman was in power.
