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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Bangladesh Eyes End To Treasure Trove Bank Vault Mystery

Khawaja Naim Murad (R), the great-grandson of Sir Salimullah Bahadur - the last prince or Nawab of Dhaka, shows ornament designs as he sits beside his daughter Nameera Naim during an interview with AFP at their house in Dhaka (Credit: AFP)

For more than a century, the fate of the dazzling Darya-e-Noor diamond has been sealed inside a bank vault -- a mystery that haunts Khawaja Naim Murad, great-grandson of the last prince, or Nawab, of Dhaka.

Locked away in 1908, were the family's heirlooms lost during the violence at the end of British rule in 1947?

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