Akram was one of the nine pilots who joined the "Kilo Flight" that wreaked havoc inside enemy territory during Bangladesh's bloody war of independence in 1971. On the night of 3 December, Squadron Leader Shamsul Alam and Captain Akram Ahmed attacked the Eastern Refinery in Chattogram and destroyed the oil depot. After the war he joined as a cockpit pilot of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, flying the Dakota DC-3. Captain Akram was also involved in the movement for the trial of war criminals and the banning of radical communal politics led by Jahanara Imam from the very beginning. In a message of condolence, the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee mourned the loss of a great warrior in the Liberation War.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2020 18:57 UTC