1963, secretary of the government-sponsored Pakistan Press Court of Honours and director of Pakistan International Airlines (1956–58). On 16 June 1963, Hossain was detained again and the Daily Ittefaq banned. His press, New Nation Printing Press, was confiscated by the government of Pakistan. His two other newspapers, Dhaka Times and Purbani (Cine Weekly), were also forced close. After the 1963 Hazratbal Shrine theft of Prophet Muhammad's beard hair in Kashmir 1964 East Pakistan riots broke out. He helped in preventing the violence from spreading. He worked as the mouthpiece of the Combined Opposition Parties which were the political parties of Pakistan working against General Ayub Khan and supporting the presidential candidacy of Fatima Jinnah, sister of the founder of Pakistan Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Hossain played a notable role during the Six point movement of 1966. The movement—spearheaded by Awami League leadership after realizing that the East and West Pakistan were moving along divergent economic paths—tried to establish regional economic autonomy of East Pakistan. The announcement of the six-point movement was supposed to be made by Shah Azizur Rahman as per the decision of Mujib himself. However, Miah felt that it should be Mujib rather than Shah Azizur Rahman who should make the announcement. Mujib's declaration of the program in 1966 elevated his position as the undisputed supreme leader in what would become the movement for independence in 1971. He supported the six point movement which bought him the pique of the government. Hossain was detained on 16 June 1966 and released on 27 March 1967. Following the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising, the ban on Ittefaq was lifted and it started operations again. The Daily Star described 1954 to 1971 as the "golden era" of the daily Ittefaq under Hossain and uncompilable to any newspaper in Bangladesh. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, the office of Ittfaq was burned down by Pakistan Army on 25 March 1971 at the start of Operation Searchlight. Death and legacy Hossain died in 1969 at the age of 58 at Rawalpindi's Intercontinental Hotel in Pakistan of cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Azimpur graveyard in present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh. His closest friend and companion at death was A.K. Rafiqul Hussain (Khair Miah Shahib). Shahib accompanied his dead body to Tejgaon Dhaka Airport. At the airport, many leaders were present to receive Miah's body. After the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the present Manik Miah Avenue