Bangladesh

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday offered fateha at the grave of his younger brother Arafat Rahman Koko. Tarique arrived at the Banani Graveyard at around 1:50PM, completing the National Identity Card (NID) registration and voter enlistment process at the Election Commission’s National Identity Wing. He offered fateha at the grave and joined a munajat, seeking salvation of Koko’s ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has completed the National Identity Card (NID) registration process giving fingerprints and Iris scans. He arrived at the Election Training Institute in Agargaon at around 1PM to complete his NID registration and enlist himself as a voter. As part of the process, he provided biometric data and had his photograph taken. ASM Humayun Kabir, DG ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday morning visited the grave of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi at Dhaka University and offered fateha there. He, alongwith BNP leaders, went to the grave, located beside the gave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam,at about 11:17AM and, later, placed a wreath at Hadi’s grave at around 11:30AM. Tarique offered fateha and ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman visited the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Friday night and paid tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War, marking his homecoming after nearly 17 years of exile in London. He reached the National Martyrs’ Memorial around 10:00 pm, accompanied by senior party leaders, amid the presence of a huge number of party supporters. Several ...

A day after returning to Bangladesh following years in exile, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman paid homage to his father, BNP founder and former president Ziaur Rahman, by visiting his grave at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday afternoon after 19 years. Tarique Rahman reached the mausoleum of the late president around 4:40pm, where he placed floral wreaths, took part ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that Tarique Rahman will build a truly democratic state, highlighting the historic nature of his return to Bangladesh. Fakhrul made the remarks while paying tribute at the grave of former President Ziaur Rahman at Chandrima Udyan in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. He described Tarique Rahman’s reception on Thursday as unprecedented, saying ...

Inqilab Moncho on Friday blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka, demanding justice for the killing of its spokesperson and Dhaka-8 constituency’s prospective parliamentary candidate, Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi. Following Jummah prayers, leaders and activists of Inqilab Moncho, along with general students and members of the public, brought out a protest march from the Dhaka University Central Mosque and marched to ...

Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud has said that there is no legal obstacle to BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman becoming a registered voter. He also said that if the Election Commission wishes, it can register anyone as a voter at any time. The Election Commissioner made the remarks on Friday afternoon. However, Abdur Rahmanel Masud said he could not confirm ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman reached Evercare hospital to visit mother and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia after attending a public event at 36 Expressway (300-Foot Road). Earlier, he was accorded warm reception and emotional greetings at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on arrival from London. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir led the party standing ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday said the party’s goal is to build a safer Bangladesh where every citizen can leave home and return without fear, stressing unity, democracy and equal rights for all. Speaking at the start of his address at a public reception on the 300 Feet Road in the capital on December 25, Rahman said the ...