Ex-B'desh PM Khaleda Zia critical, BNP signals plans for possible transfer abroad

IANS | November 30, 2025 9:28 AM

Dhaka, Nov 30 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia remains in a critical state at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, where she has been admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) under the supervision of local and foreign specialists, local media reported, quoting BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

Intl legal bodies slam judicial harassment of Pakistani human rights lawyers

IANS | November 29, 2025 9:09 PM

Islamabad, Nov 29 (IANS) Several leading international legal organisations have expressed their grave concerns over the ongoing judicial harassment of Pakistani human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, calling on the Pakistani authorities to immediately drop all charges and end criminal proceedings against them.