DHAKA: BRAC University Professor Dr Piash Karim passed away at a city hospital on Monday morning.

He breathed his last at Square Hospital in capital around 5:30am.

Hospital’s Brother Manik confirmed the matter to banglanews.

Sources said that family members informed the hospital about the illness of Dr Piash Karim and then he was shifted to hospital quickly by an ambulance.

Later, duty doctors declared him dead.

Hospital’s brother Manik confirmed the matter to banglanews.

Piash Karim was a professor of economics and social science at Brac University in Bangladesh.

Professor Piash Karim obtained his Ph.D in Sociology from Kansas State University, USA. His specializations include Political Economy, Political Sociology, Nationalism and Social Theory.

He had extensive teaching experience in the United States and held faculty positions at University of Nebraska at Kearny and Culver- Stocketon College, Missouri for seventeen years before joining BRAC University in 2007.

His present passion focuses on Civil Society and Media Activism. He has published in international and national Journals.

** BNP mourns Piash Karim’s death

BDST: 0845 HRS, OCT 13, 2014/updated 0907hrs