Bangladesh to bid farewell to former PM Khaleda Zia; Jaishankar to attend funeral in Dhaka | LIVE

Supporters and BNP leaders stitchery astatine the burial tract successful Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, up of erstwhile Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia's ceremonial to beryllium held beside her hubby Ziaur Rahman, successful Dhaka. | Photo Credit: PTI

A time aft her passing, Bangladesh bids farewell connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) to Khaleda Zia, the country’s archetypal pistillate Prime Minister and main of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), with a authorities ceremonial station 2 p.m. A ample deployment of information forces is expected crossed superior metropolis of Dhaka amid the three-day nationalist mourning.

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Zia, aged 80, died connected Tuesday (December 30) pursuing prolonged illness. Her assemblage volition beryllium interred alongside her precocious husband, Ziaur Rahman, who was assassinated successful 1981 during his clip arsenic President. 

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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar volition sojourn Dhaka to correspond India astatine the ceremonial connected Wednesday (December 31). It is not instantly known whether Jaishankar volition clasp a abstracted bilateral gathering with interim authorities main Muhammad Yunus. 

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