 He was accorded a national reception in Dhaka in 1989 which was attended by eminent scholars and litterateurs of Bangladesh and India.In 2007, Dhaka City Corporation named the former Darussalam Road of Mirpur-1 as "Bhasha Sainik Principal Abul Kashem Road" for his contribution to historic Language Movement.Kashem died at the Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka on Monday 11 March 1991.