Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Yunus visits critically ill ex-PM Khaleda Zia

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interim caput  of the Bangladesh government, Muhammad Yunus. File

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Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) visited critically sick erstwhile Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia astatine a backstage infirmary successful the capital.

“The Chief Adviser stayed astatine the infirmary for astir fractional an hr and urged her family, enactment leaders and activists to support patience,” Mr. Yunus’ property helping said successful a connection pursuing his sojourn to the Evercare Hospital.

It added that the main of a aesculapian committee formed to dainty Ms. Zia briefed Yunus astir her wellness information and said experts of 2 large U.S. hospitals and respective different physicians from “different countries, including Britain and China” were overseeing her attraction procedures.

“He reassured each sorts of authorities enactment (for Ms. Zia),” the connection read.

Ms. Yunus’ sojourn came a time aft 3 equipped forces chiefs, General Waker uz Zaman, Admiral M Nazmul Hassan and Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood visited her astatine the Evercare Hospital, wherever Ms. Zia is being treated for the past 11 days.

No factual update connected Ms. Zia’s wellness was made by her doctors, household oregon enactment since her idiosyncratic doc and BNP Standing Committee Member AZM Zahid Hossain connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) said she is responding to attraction being provided.

“Begum Khaleda Zia has been undergoing attraction successful the CCU of Evercare Hospital since November 27 and is responding to the attraction being provided by the doctors,” helium told a media briefing extracurricular the hospital.

According to media reports, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a 2nd aesculapian squad comprising 4 adept doctors hours aft 4 British doctors arrived successful Dhaka to assistance the squad treating the three-time Bangladesh premier.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday (December 1, 2025) voiced heavy interest implicit the wellness of Khaleda Zia and offered each imaginable support.

“Deeply acrophobic to larn astir the wellness of Begum Khaleda Zia, who has contributed to Bangladesh’s nationalist beingness for galore years,” Mr. Modi said successful a station connected societal media.

“Our sincere prayers and champion wishes for her speedy recovery. India stands acceptable to widen each imaginable support, successful immoderate mode we can,” it added.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif besides sent a missive wishing her a swift recovery, conveying his “sincerest prayers and bully wishes”.

Ms. Zia was hospitalised connected November 23 with aggregate wellness issues, and she was shifted to the CCU of the Evercare Hospital connected November 27 arsenic her information deteriorated.

The ex-premier’s younger member Shamim Iskandar, his woman Kaniz Fatema, and Zia’s deceased younger son’s woman Sharmila Rahman are among the relatives contiguous astatine the hospital.

Her elder lad and BNP’s self-exiled acting president Tarique Rahman is overseeing the attraction from London.

Mr. Rahman has been surviving successful London since 2008, portion helium was charged and convicted successful respective graft and transgression cases during the past military-backed caretaker authorities and consequent Awami League authorities of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

But the interim authorities withdrew each the cases, and courts acquitted him nether revised judgments, portion respective advisers said determination was nary barroom for his instrumentality and promised him the required information connected his arrival.

Foreign advisor Touhid Hossain said that the authorities were acceptable to contented his question papers successful a time if his passport had expired, but the Bangladesh embassy successful the U.K. received nary petition truthful acold for his question document.

Published - December 04, 2025 01:38 americium IST

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