After more than seven centuries, past Bangladeshi prime minister and BNP key Khaleda Zia reunited with her son Tarique Rahman in London on Wednesday thanks to a political shift in Dhaka.
Khaleda (79 ), who is in London for advanced treatment, had last visited the city in 2017. Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government had forbidden her from leaving Bangladesh since then and she had never met her brother, who has been living in exile in the UK since 2008, who had been in captivity there. Tarique, the acting BNP chairman, along with his family Zubaida Rahman greeted his family at the Heathrow airport.
The ex-PM is confined to a chair with chronic rheumatism. She also has cirrhosis of the liver and insulin. Following her faith in a bone situation in 2018, the Hasina government had consistently turned down requests for Khaleda to go abroad for treatment. Khaleda boarded an heat hospital that the Emir of Qatar sent to Dhaka on Tuesday.
