Gulshan attack victim Faraaz honoured with Mother Teresa Award

 

Faraaz was recognised by the foundation for his heroic end during the Holey Artisan attack on July 1 this year– when he refused to leave his friends behind and was slain along with them by terrorists.

His friends were Abinta Kabir, a Bangladesh-born US citizen and a student at Emory University, and Tarishi Jain, an Indian student at the University of California, Berkeley.

The award was handed to Faraaz’s mother, Simeen Hossain and his older brother, Zaraif Ayaat Hossain by the former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Mother Teresa’s Disciple Sister Priscilla.

This is the first time any foreign recipient had received an award posthumously by the foundation.

Harmony Foundation President Abraham Mathai, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah and filmaker Mahesh Bhatt were also present during the ceremony.

Faraaz was a student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in the US. He was the son of Simeen and Muhammad Waquer Bin Hossain and grandson of Transcom Group Chairman Latifur Rahman and Shahnaz Rahman.

This article was first published on Dhaka Tribune