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Khaleda Zia’s bank accounts unfrozen after 17 years

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The National Board of Revenue has instructed banks to unfreeze the accounts of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, a move that comes 17 years after it had ordered banks to block her accounts.

In August 2007, the NBR's Central Intelligence Cell directed banks to freeze the accounts of the BNP chairperson, who has been elected Bangladesh's prime minister twice since 1990.

The decision to freeze the accounts was based on a recommendation of a panel formed during the then Army-backed caretaker government, said a senior official of the NBR.

Since then, her accounts have remained blocked although the BNP has on several occasions demanded they be unfrozen.

The latest move came weeks after a mass uprising toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, a long-time rival of Khaleda, on August 5, ending the Bangladesh Awami League's 15-year rule.

The NBR official added that they had received an application seeking to unfreeze the accounts from Khaleda's lawyer on Sunday.

"As there are no tax-related issues pending investigation relating to her, we have advised banks to unlock all her accounts. We have asked them to take immediate action and provide a compliance report," the official added.​

 

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Khaleda to go abroad for advance treatment

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia would go abroad for advance treatment as soon as possible although the destination is not finalised yet, her personal physician and the party’s standing committee member AZM Zahid Hossain said on Sunday.... ‘

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia would go abroad for advance treatment as soon as possible although the destination is not finalised yet, her personal physician and the party’s standing committee member AZM Zahid Hossain said on Sunday.

‘BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will go abroad as soon as possible for advance treatment. But where would she go and get treatment from which hospital have not been finalised yet,’ Zhaid told reporters following a visit of National Institute of Opthalmology and Hospital where several students and people who were injured during the recent student-people uprising.

He also said that the physical condition of Khaleda Zia was now being monitored.

‘In due course, she will be taken abroad for treatment,’ he said.

Zahid said that more than 750 people, injured during the protest, received treatment in this hospital while many of them have returned home.

Many require long-term treatment, he said, adding that currently 11 patients are very critical here.

A day after Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s fall amid student-people unprecedented uprising on August 5, Khaleda Zia was freed in an executive order.

Three-time former prime minister Khaleda Zia, 79, was sent to the old Dhaka jail after a lower court sentenced her to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018.

Later in the same year, she was found guilty in another corruption case.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on the condition that she would stay in her Gulshan house and would not leave the country.

Later, her sentence was suspended several times, for a duration of six months each time under the same conditions.

Khaleda Zia has been suffering from various ailments, including three blockages in her heart.​

 

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Khaleda Zia to fly abroad soon for treatment

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia would fly abroad soon for receiving advanced medical treatment. Mentioning her long struggle for democracy, he said, "No woman leader in the world has struggled

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Khaleda Zia to fly abroad soon for treatment
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia would fly abroad soon for receiving advanced medical treatment.

Mentioning her long struggle for democracy, he said, "No woman leader in the world has struggled for democracy like her (Begum). This housewife (Khaleda Zia) after the assassination of her husband Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman came out on the streets to save the party. She also struggled for restoring democracy by ousting autocrat Ershad. We must follow what she has contributed for the cause of the party. She remains constant to her courage".

Mirza Fakhrul came up with the observations at a doa and milad mahfil marking the 80th birth anniversary of party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia at the party's headquarters at Nayapaltan in the capital.

He cautioned the party leaders and activists that their struggle was yet to be over after the fall of autocrat Sheikh Hasina.

Mr Fakhrul called upon his party stalwarts to be united and maintain utmost discipline to uphold the images of the BNP.

He said that the real success would come when the government elected (in a free, fair and neutral manner) by the people was established.

"Our sons had shed their blood and won victory. Many stalwarts of Chhatra Dal had also sacrificed their lives (during recent anti-Sheikh Hasina movement). No way to create division. We must be united," he continued.

"Our struggle is yet to be over. We are still in a floating state. Conspiracies are still going on. She (deposed Sheikh Hasina) is still hatching conspiracy against the country sitting in India. We must be cautious and united so that neo-fascist could not appear again (sit on our shoulder)," he maintained.

"They (Awami League men and deposed Sheikh Hasina) want to create a trouble in the country citing the plea of communal disharmony," he said.

Highlighting the importance for maintaining communal harmony in the country, he called upon his party stalwarts to constitute peace brigades in their respective areas to protect the minorities' lives and properties.

"You (party stalwarts) must form 'peace brigades' in your respective areas to save the minorities' lives, their temples, churches and defend their businesses and properties," he stated.

He ur0ged the party leaders and activists to move the country forward with peace and sans vengeance as directed by party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.

"We have to continue our struggle. Otherwise we might fall into trouble," he cautioned his party followers.

About the interim government, Mr Fakhrul further said "We have to give them (interim government) a logical time to remove all irregularities that have been piled up over the past several years (during the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League regime)."

The doa and milad mahfil were also held praying for the salvation of the departed souls of those who had sacrificed their lives during the recent student-people movement against the Sheikh Hasina regime and early recovery of those who got wounded.

BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan, Vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint Secretaries General Khairul Kabir Khokon and Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel and party's Publicity Secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku were present, among others.​

 

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Attack on Khaleda’s motorcade: Salahuddin, Zayed Khan, Shahriar Nazim Joy sued

Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Salahuddin, actors Zayed Khan, Shahriar Nazim Joy and Shazu Khadem and 47 others were sued yesterday on charge of attacking the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Fakirapool intersection in April of 2015

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Attack on Khaleda’s motorcade: Salahuddin, Zayed Khan, Shahriar Nazim Joy sued

Kazi Salahuddin, Zayed Khan and Shahriar Nazim Joy

Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Salahuddin, actors Zayed Khan, Shahriar Nazim Joy and Shazu Khadem and 47 others were sued yesterday on charge of attacking the motorcade of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Fakirapool intersection in April of 2015.

Shahriar Imam Asip, publicity and publication secretary of BNP's Motijheel Thana unit, filed the case against them with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zaki Al Farabi.

Upon the hearing, the magistrate recorded the statement of the complainant and asked the officer-in-charge of Motijheel Police Station to register the complaint as a first information report (FIR).

Former AL lawmakers Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Sheikh Helaluddin, Colonel (retd) Faruk Khan, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Workers Party chief Rashed Khan Menon, Jatiya Samajtanrik Dal chief Hasanul Haque Inu, former Dhaka South City Corporation mayors Syed Khokon and Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh have also been accused in the case.

In the complaint, the complainant alleged that as per the direction of high-profile leaders,the accusedequipped with hockey sticks, firearms and crude bombs, attacked on Khaleda Zia's motorcade at Fakirapool intersection around 6:30pm on April 20, 2015 when she was on her way to join a mayoral election campaign in support of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas.

The accused also vandalised over 14 cars and four motorbikes and assaulted several leaders and activists of BNP and its front organisation, leaving a number of people, including the complainant, injured.​

 

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UK envoy Sarah Cooke meets Khaleda

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met BNP chairperson Begum khaleda Zia and enquired about her health conditions tonight

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UK envoy Sarah Cooke meets Khaleda

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British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met BNP chairperson Begum khaleda Zia and enquired about her health conditions tonight.

The meeting was held at BNP chairperson's Firoza residence in the city's Gulshan area at 8:30pm, said BNP Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.

It was Khaleda Zia's first meeting with any foreign envoy since 2018 following her acquittal from her convictions in graft cases.

Sarah Cooke met Khaleda ahead of her visit to the UK for better treatment, party sources said.

BNP standing committee member Prof Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, chief of her medical board Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, Dr FM Siddique, and member of the Special Assistant to BNP Chairperson's Foreign Affairs Advisory Committee Tabith Awal were present.

On July 8, Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister, was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital six days after she had been discharged from the same hospital with various ailments.

On August 24, she returned home after receiving treatment at the hospital for 45 days.

A group of specialist doctors, led by Prof Shahabuddin Talukder, successfully installed a pacemaker in Khaleda Zia's chest on June 23.

Khaleda has long been battling various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, and issues related to the kidney, lung, heart, and eyes.

Khaleda's doctors have been recommending sending her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.

On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed the hepatic procedure known as the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS procedure) to stop water accretion in Khaleda Zia's stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.

She was placed in Old Dhaka Central Jail on February 8, 2018, after a special court sentenced her to five years in prison in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. On October 30, 2018, the High Court raised her punishment to 10 years. Later, she was convicted in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail after 776 days through an executive order, suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020 with conditions that she would stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country.

On August 6 last, Khaleda Zia was completely freed by an order of President Mohammed Shahabuddin.

The president passed the order under Article 49 of the Bangladesh Constitution, according to a gazette issued by the home ministry on August 6.

Article 49 states that "The president shall have power to grant pardons, reprieves, and respites and to remit, suspend, or commute any sentence passed by any court, tribunal, or other authority."​