The health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recovered from Covid-19 earlier this month, is stable although fluid is still being extracted from her lungs. The 10-member medical board formed to treat her reviewed the former premier's health condition yesterday at 2:30pm, said AZM Zahid Hossain, Khaleda's personal physician. "Around 390ml fluid was extracted in the
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The BNP has termed unacceptable the government s reasoning on legal grounds for not accepting the application from BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia s family to allow her to go abroad for treatment. They [government] said they can t allow Khaleda Zia to go abroad [for treatment]. They have given some reasons which are absolutely unacceptable and lame. They said there is no precedence of sending convicts abroad. They are trying to mislead people, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday.
He made the remarks at a press conference at the BNP chairperson s political office in Gulshan in response to remarks made by several ministers regarding the application for sending Khaleda abroad.
Khaleda Zia s treatment abroad: Law ministry sends opinion to home ministry
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The law ministry has sent its opinion to the home ministry on the files regarding BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia s treatment abroad. We have sent the opinion to the home ministry through an official some time back. However, I cannot disclose what opinion has been given, Law Ministry Secretary Md Golam Sarwar told The Daily Star at 10:40am today.
Contacted, Law Minister Anisul Huq told The Daily Star that he will not disclose what he said in the opinion on the files regarding Khaleda Zia s treatment abroad.
The law ministry has refused to allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for treatment. "I have said in the opinion that Khaleda Zia's jail sentence has been suspended as per section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), on condition that she cannot go abroad. Now, there is no scope to relax this condition. Therefore, she cannot go abroad for treatment," Law
Khaleda’s treatment abroad: Law ministry’s opinion reaches home ministry
The files with Law Ministe Anisul Huq’s opinion regarding BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad reached home ministry on Sunday morning.
Public Relations Officer of the law ministry Dr Md Rezaul Karim confirmed the news.
Last week, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family sought permission from the government to take her abroad for better treatment.
The government had released the BNP chief on March 25 last year after suspending her jail sentence as per Section 401 (1) of the Criminal Code of Procedure (CrPC) for six months primarily.
The suspension was extended twice later on. According to the law, the suspension order can be placed conditionally. It can be withdrawn either.