updated on June 16, 2008

 


The following Legendary figures, Dignitaries and Heads of State

visited Pabna 
on different occasions  

 

 


Mughal Emperor Shahjahan
 In 1632,on the way towards Dhaka by river through Chalan Bil,
under the campaign against the Portuguese pirates,
made a stopover in Potajia,a river-port near Shahjadpur.
There He visited the Nabaratna Temple((below)
Source:Chalan Biler Itikatha by Principal M.A.Hamid,page37& Bharatbarsher Itihash by K.Antonova


Sir Alexander Fresher,Lt.Gov.of Bengal 4th July,1904
Inauguration of the main Building of today's Edward Univ.College

Prince William of Sweden Ishurdi,1911
 

Lord Carmichael,1st Governor of Bengal,1912

Rabindranath Tagore,January 1914, to attend Pabna Conference

Lord Sir Henry Hardinge,Viceroy,British-India
Paksey,4th February,1915.Inaugurated the Harding's Bridge

Deshabandhu Chittya Ranjan  Das

Lord Liton,Governor of Bengal
on the 25th January 1926,visited Edward College

Acharya Sir Profulla Chandra Roy13th August 1924
He was on Governmental inspection to Edward College for  opening B.Sc course
Source: Edward College Gazetteer

Mahatma Gandhi,23rd May,1925
Attended a women's conference at the Banamali Town Hall 

Netajee Subhas Chandra Bose,1927
 

and his elder brother
Politician Sharat Chandra Bose

The Great Novelist Sharat Chandra Chaterjee,
Every year between 1928-32
Stayed in Guha Vila  as guest  of Mr.Jagadish C Guha
 

Manabendra Nath Roy,1939-40
 

Khawja Nazimuddin,1944
Under Election Campaign

Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq,1940

Great Magician P.C.Sarkar ,1942

Frontier Gandhi Abdul Gaffar Khan,1954
For election Campaign attended a meeting of United Front in Pabna Alia Madrasa,

Hussain Shahid Sorwardy
Source:Photo Archieve

Field Marshall Ayub Khan,Ishurdi,

Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,Ishurdi,? and his sister

 Fatema Jinnah,Ishurdi,1962
under election campaign attended a public meeting at
Paksey Sara Marwary High School field

Lt.Governor Azam Khan,Ishurdi,1962

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1951,64
13th May 1972


Ziaur Rahman,May 1976

Hussain Muhammad Ershad

 Khaleda Zia
Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina
Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Finn Thilstedt,
Honorable Danish ambassador  to Bangladesh,
Goyeshpur village ca 4km NW of Pabna town,
on the 20th June,2000 on a Bangladesh Agri Research Institute(BARI) project visit.

Hu Chen Wen
Honorable Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Bangladesh,
at the inauguration ceremony of 
Pabna Digital Telephone Exchange on the 26th September 2000.

Merry Ann Peters
Honorable Ambassador of the United States of America 
at the inauguration ceremony of the Padma Bridge Construction 
and EPZ on the 13th January 2001,Paksey and Ishurdi 

Dr.Md.Yousuf Bin Ahmed
Honorable Highcommissionar of Malaysia
at the above mentioned occassion

Shahata Zarab
Honorable Dean of the diplomatic corps at Dhaka
and the Palestinian representative in Bangladesh
At the occassion of Durga Puja at Joy Kali temple on the 25th Oct.2001

Fredrick T Tempel
World Bank chief in Bangladesh.As honorabled guest
 visited Pabna Community Clinic at Radhanagar on the 11th Dec.2002.

 


 

 

 

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