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India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) met Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman and conveyed condolences connected behalf of the Government of India connected the passing distant of erstwhile Prime Minister of Khaleda Zia.
This is the archetypal sojourn by Mr. Jaishankar to Dhaka since the interim authorities took complaint connected August 5, 2025. The overseas affairs advisor of the interim government, Touhid Hossein was among those who met Mr. Jaishankar.
The gathering betwixt Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Rahman successful ‘Feroza’, the residence of the precocious Begum Zia, marks the archetypal juncture erstwhile an Indian Minister met Mr. Rahman who returned from London connected December 25, 2025 aft astir 18 years of self-exile successful London wherever helium had been based due to the fact that of his disputes with the erstwhile authorities of Sheikh Hasina that was deposed by a student-people uprising past year.
Mr. Jaishankar carried a missive from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had condoled the demise of the seasoned person whom helium had met successful June 2015 during 1 of his aboriginal visits to Dhaka arsenic the Indian PM. Amir Khosru Mahmud Choudhury, a elder subordinate of the National Standing Committee of the BNP besides interacted with Mr. Jaishankar.
Earlier connected Wednesday (December 31), Zia’s mortal remains were brought to ‘Feroza’ successful the Gulshan neighbourhood of superior Dhaka, wherever contiguous household members and members of the Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party held prayers and paid their past respects.
Several determination and planetary figures are successful Dhaka to wage their respects to Zia, who had been portion of Bangladesh’s nationalist beingness since the aboriginal 1970s erstwhile her precocious husband, President Ziaur Rahman, debuted successful the publc beingness arsenic a subject fig who had rebelled against the Pakistani service and trained units of the Mukti Bahini that fought to escaped Bangladesh.
Pakistan High Commission successful Dhaka announced successful the meantime that Pakistan National Assembly’s Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had besides reached Dhaka to enactment successful the ceremonial supplication of Begum Zia. Earlier diplomatic sources had informed that Foreign Minister of Pakistan Ishaq Dar was expected to scope Dhaka but Mr. Dar aboriginal announced that Mr. Sadique would correspond Pakistan astatine the ceremonial prayers.
Mr. Rahman said, “To many, she was the person of the nation, an uncompromising leader, the Mother of Democracy, the Mother of Bangladesh. Today, the state mourns the nonaccomplishment of a guiding beingness that shaped its antiauthoritarian aspirations.
