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He was 84.
Family source confirmed the matter to banglanews.
Earlier, he was shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on March 11.
On March 10, the President was rushed to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka as he got high fever and experienced severe breathing problems.
Zillur Rahman was born on 9 March 1929 at Poirtala of Brahmanbaria district. In 1945, he passed Matriculation from Bhairab K. B. High School. He passed Intermediate of Arts (IA) in 1947 from Dhaka Intermediate College. He earned a law degree and Master`s Degree in history from Dhaka University.
Zillur Rahman participated in the Bengali language movement of 1952. Later, as an Awami League candidate, he was elected as a member of parliament in the 1970 national elections of Pakistan. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Rahman actively participated in the Government-in-exile.
After the war, Rahman became the General Secretary of Awami League in 1972. He was elected as a member of the parliament in the 1973 general elections. After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Zillur Rahman was arrested by the army junta, and spent four years in prison.
Rahman served as a minister in the Awami League government between 1996 and 2001.
He was declared the President by the Election Commission on 11 February 2009 when no other candidate filed to run in the presidential election since the Awami League won the vast majority of seats in the just completed parliamentary election and he was sworn in on 12 February 2009.
Rahman was married to fellow Awami League politician Ivy Rahman, the Women`s Affairs secretary of the same party. Ivy was killed in the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack. Together they had one son and two daughters.
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