RIYADH: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform holy hajj.

A jet of Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying the BNP chairperson landed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah at 10:50pm (local time).

BNP’s central executive committee member, also Saudi Arabia Western Region BNP president Ahmed Ali Mukib confirmed the matter to banglanews.

Party’s central executive committee member Abdur Rahman and Ahmed Ali Mukib along with other senior leaders and a large number of activists welcomed the chairperson at airport.

Khaleda Zia’s adviser and Middle East affairs special envoy Dr. Muhammad Enamul Haque Chowdhury, personal secretary ABM Abdus Sattar, personal photographer Nuruddin Ahmed, executive committee’s ICT affairs secretary Sharif Shah Kamal Taj and domestic help Fatema Begum accompanied her.

Meanwhile, wishing anonymity, a source told banglanews that Khaleda Zia’s elder son, also party’s senior vice chairperson Tarique Rahman will arrive in Saudi Arabia from London on Thursday.

Earlier, she left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon.
** Khaleda Zia leaves for KSA for hajj

BDST: 0957 HRS, SEP 08, 2016
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