Maj Gen (Retd) KM Shafiullah, one of the noted sector commanders in the Liberation War, has been admitted to the intensive care unit, or ICU, at a Dhaka hospital. “He [Shafiullah] is receiving treatment at the ICU of Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital,” Habib said, citing the sector commander’s family. Shafiullah was second in command of the Second East Bengal Regiment in Joydevpur during the 1971 Liberation War. At the beginning of the Liberation War, Shafiullah was the commander of Sector 3. Born in 1934 in Narayanganj’s Rupganj, Shafiullah served as the chief of Army staff of the Bangladesh Army from 1972 to 1975.
