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POST TIME: 19 December, 2017 00:00 00 AM / LAST MODIFIED: 18 December, 2017 11:53:46 PM
Walton Group founding chairman dies
UNB

Walton Group founding chairman dies

SM Nazrul Islam

SM Nazrul Islam, the founding chairman of country's leading company Walton Group, died on Sunday. He was 93, reports UNB. Nazrul breathed his last at the Apollo Hospitals in the city around 9:40 pm. He was the pioneer of the country's electrical and electronics production industry. The first namaz-e-janaza of Nazrul Islam will be held at the corporate office of Walton Group at Bashundhara residential area (Plot-1088, Block-I, Road-80 Flat-2,) in the capital at 10:50 am on Monday. The second namaz-e-janaza will be performed at Walton Factory at Chandra in Kaliakair of Gazipur at 11:30 am. He will be laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard of Tangail's Gosaijoair after third namaz-e-janaza after Asr prayers on Monday. SM Nazrul is survived by wife, five sons and two daughters.