DHAKA, July 20, 2022 (BSS) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today  expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former Awami League Advisory Council member and former secretary to the government ATM Shamsul Huq.

   
In a condolence message, Sheikh Hasina recalled his role as a civil servant and subsequently as a political figure when he was particularly entrusted with the task of administrative reforms.
   
The premier also recalled his involvement in student politics in his early life.
 
Sheikh Hasina prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
   
Haq, who hailed from Cumilla, died this morning at a hospital in Dhaka.
 
 “During the then Awami League government in 1996-2001 term, Shamsul Huq served as the chairman of the Public Administration Reform Commission for three years with the rank of a minister,” a PMO spokesman quoted her as saying.
   
Ahead of joining Awami League after his retirement from the government service, Huq served as the secretary of several ministries and as the director general of Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) for a long time.