The termination of former brigadier general Abdullahil Amaan Azmi was cancelled on Tuesday, replacing the termination order, issued on June 23, 2009, with untimely forced retirement.
The fresh order also said that Azmi would get all financial benefits and other facilities since June 24, 2009, said a press release of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate issued on Friday.
On the evening of August 22, 2016, Azmi was聽 abducted by about 30 people in plainclothes identifying themselves as members o the detective branch of police, Azmi鈥檚 family alleged.
Since then, the family did not know the whereabouts of Azmi, who was a victim of enforced disappearance during the ousted Awami League regime鈥檚 misrule.聽聽
Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government on August 5 amid an unprecedented student-led mass uprising, Azmi was released on August 6 from secret detention centre widely known as 鈥楢ynaghar鈥�.
Addressing a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka, former brigadier general Abdullahil Amaan Azmi said that he was disappeared due to his anti-India writings on social media and as his father was Ghulam Azam, former chief of Jamaat-e-Islami who was convicted by the International Crimes Tribunal for his role in the War of Independence in 1971.
