For more than ten years now Irom Sharmila, a young woman from Manipur, has been on hunger strike, demanding the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers).
He also met here his future wife, Jetta Umiker, whom he was to marry in 1924. After the wedding the couple moved to Rome, where their first son, George, was.
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Ph.D. (1994), McGill University, Montreal, is Lecturer in History at the Qa'id-i A'zam University, Islamabad. He has published several articles on early Islamic history and historiography.
He was born on 17 March 1920 in Tungipara, Faridpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India. In 1967, Bangabandhu was incarcerated in Dacca's Central Jail.