DHAKA, Mar 5, 2024 (BSS) - English-language weekly Holiday editor Sayed Kamaluddin died at a city hospital here today.

He was 84.  

He was suffering from kidney related complications and breathed his last at about 2:30pm at Evercare Hospital, said Talat Kamal, youngest son of Sayed Kamaluddin.

The senior journalist left behind two sons to mourn his death.

He will be buried at Banani graveyard after Isha prayers following his namaz-e-janaza at the Dhaka Cantonment Board Jame Mosque (Allahu Mosque), his family sources said.

Senior journalist Kamaluddin joined the weekly in 2005. He also worked as minister (press) for Bangladesh mission in Washington DC.  

Kamaluddin began his career with the Daily Azad in 1961. Till the closure of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review in 2004, he worked with the reputed weekly in its head-office in Hong Kong and also as Dhaka correspondent and freelance writer.

He also worked as correspondent of The Financial Times, London, the Economist, London, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

He worked in Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) till 1974.

Returning from Washington in 2004, he wrote for the Financial Express, the New Age, the Holiday and the Economic and Business Review of Dawn, Pakistan.

Kamaluddin joined the BBC World Service as Dhaka correspondent in 1974 before joining the Agence France-Presse, the French news agency.