Khaleda leaves London for home

BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia has left London for Dhaka on a special air ambulance provided by the Emir of Qatar.

The flight departed London’s Heathrow Airport around 9:35pm on Monday (Bangladesh time), according to the party sources.

Earlier, her son and BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman drove her to the airport around 2:10pm local time, Khaleda’s personal physician Prof AZM Zahid Hossain said.

Her two daughters-in-law, Zubaida Rahman and Syeda Shamila Rahman, are also coming home with the mother-in-law, Zahid said.

Meanwhile, BNP leaders and activists from across Europe and various cities in the United States arrived in London on Monday morning to bid farewell to the party chief.

BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has arrived at Heathrow International Airport after leaving her son’s home in London to return to Bangladesh.