Bangladesh's most experienced and former Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman, died in a road crash on Saturday near Brahmanbaria, 116 kilometers northeast from the capital Dhaka. Saifur Rahman, 76, who is the old guard of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by three times Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, was killed when he was on his way to Dhaka from his home town northeastern Sylhet, as his jeep split into two pieces after hitting a roadside tree as the driver lost control over it. Rahman, founding member of the BNP and close aide of the slain Bangladeshi president Lt. Gen. Ziaur Rahman was taken to Brahmanbaria hospital after the accident, but the attending doctor declared him dead. Rahman, also Standing Committee member, the policy making body of the BNP, now in opposition, was all along finance minister of the BNP, the party which ruled the country for 17 years after its independence in 1971. 