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The scheduled departure of critically sick former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for London for beforehand attraction has been deferred to Sunday arsenic an aerial ambulance offered by Qatar could not scope Dhaka, a elder person of her enactment said connected Friday (December 5, 2025).
The 80-year-old caput of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was hospitalised connected November 23, was primitively scheduled to permission for London precocious connected Thursday nighttime oregon aboriginal Friday.
“If everything goes well, it (the aerial ambulance) whitethorn get time (Saturday) and if madam's wellness permits question and her aesculapian committee gives its approval, then, InshaAllah (God willing), she volition alert retired connected the 7th (Sunday),” BNP caput wide Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.
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According to a connection issued by the elder leader’s media cell, Ms. Alamgir said owed to method flaws, the peculiar craft provided by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani could not scope Dhaka arsenic scheduled connected Thursday but “it would expectedly scope Dhaka connected Saturday”. A aesculapian committee looking aft Ms. Zia connected Thursday decided to nonstop her to London for precocious treatment, her enactment said.
Meanwhile, Zubaida Rahman, the doc woman of Zia’s lone surviving offspring and acting president of BNP Tarique Rahman arrived successful Dhaka connected Friday to travel her mother-in-law to London.
Tarique Rahman, the self-exiled 60-year-old has been surviving successful London since 2008. For obscure reasons, helium has been incapable to instrumentality location and beryllium with his ailing mother. Instead, helium steers the enactment arsenic its de facto person done virtual platforms.
The three-time Prime Minister is being treated successful a captious information astatine the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) astatine Dhaka’s specialised Evercare Hospital nether an extended aesculapian committee comprising Bangladeshi and overseas doctors.
Earlier successful the year, Ms. Zia returned to the state from London connected May 6 aft spending 4 months for precocious aesculapian treatment.
14 radical to travel her to London
The BNP connected Thursday besides issued a database saying 14 people, 1 of them being Syeda Shameela Rahman, woman of Ms. Zia’s deceased younger lad Arafat Rahman and six being doctors, volition travel Ms. Zia to London.
The others see a enactment person and Ms. Zia’s advisor Enamul Haque Chowdhury, 2 agents of the elite Special Security Force (SSF) provided by Muhammad Yunus’ interim authorities and her idiosyncratic aides.
Qatar had already offered to supply the aerial ambulance for Ms. Zia for taking her to London adjacent arsenic 2 subject and aerial unit helicopters connected Thursday staged landing tests astatine the rooftop of the hospital, wherever she is admitted. Presumably, she volition beryllium flown from the infirmary to the airdrome successful 1 specified helicopter.
Meanwhile, supporters and BNP units crossed Bangladesh held prayers successful mosques aft Friday Jumma prayers seeking Ms. Zia's recovery.
