BNP chairperson and former PM Khaleda Zia’s condition ‘extremely critical’: Alamgir

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File photograph  of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and erstwhile  Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and erstwhile Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's wellness information is “extremely critical”, a adjacent adjutant said connected Friday (November 28, 2025).

The 80-year-old erstwhile premier was admitted to a infirmary connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) nighttime erstwhile she developed a thorax corruption that affected some her bosom and lungs.

“Last night, the doctors said that her carnal information is highly critical,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was quoted arsenic saying by the state-run BSS quality agency.

The BNP organised peculiar prayers aft the Friday (November 28, 2025) prayers for the speedy betterment of the party's chairperson.

“We person sought prayers from the radical crossed the state aft Jummah prayers for the betterment of the 'Mother of Democracy', Begum Khaleda Zia. We commune that she whitethorn retrieve and instrumentality to the radical to get the accidental to enactment for the country,” Mr. Fakhrul added.

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus expressed heavy interest implicit the wellness information of the BNP chairperson and urged each to commune for her aboriginal recovery, his bureau said successful a property release.

It said the main advisor has been regularly inquiring astir updates of Ms. Zia's wellness advancement and has instructed each acrophobic to guarantee each signifier of indispensable attraction support.

“There indispensable not beryllium immoderate shortcomings successful Begum Khaleda Zia's treatment. The authorities is prepared to supply each indispensable support,” Mr. Yunus said.

"At this important infinitesimal of antiauthoritarian transition, Begum Khaleda Zia is simply a profound root of inspiration for the nation. Her bully wellness is highly important for the country," helium added.

>Ms. Zia, the woman of slain Bangladesh president Zia-ur Rahman, has been suffering from aggregate wellness complications, including liver and kidney issues, diabetes, arthritis, and eye-related illnesses.

Her lone lad and BNP's acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, has been surviving successful London since 2008. Her different son, Arafat Rahman, died of a cardiac apprehension successful 2025.

BNP has emerged arsenic the frontrunner successful Bangladesh's changed governmental scenery aft a student-led convulsive thoroughfare protestation toppled then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities connected August 5, 2024.

Earlier successful the year, Ms. Zia returned to the state from London connected May 6 aft spending 4 months for precocious aesculapian treatment.

Published - November 28, 2025 08:56 p.m. IST

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