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Saifuddahar Shahid, S21A died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on 9 January, aged 75. A graduate of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, he created Shahidlipi, the first Bangla keyboard developed for the computer (1985). A founding member and first President of the Bangladesh Amateur Radio League (1979), "after working hard lobbying and negotiating with government officials for more than twelve years", he and other BARL members eventually succeeded in launching Amateur Radio in the country. In 1992 Saif got the first licence issued in Bangladesh, S21A; seven years later he migrated to the US, where he held the callsign KF6WJZ.