BNP will brief foreign diplomats in Dhaka on Bangladesh’s overall situation and the development over its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s case in which she was sentenced to five years’ jail. The senior leader are scheduled to hold the meeting with foreign envoys at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office around 4pm on Wednesday, said Khaleda’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan. A senior party leader said a group of BNP leaders, led by its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will apprise the diplomats of the party’s observations about the Supreme Court verdict that stayed the bail for Khaleda and the government’s attitude towards Khaleda and her party. This will be the second meeting between BNP leaders and diplomats since Khaleda was sent to jail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on February 8. After Khaleda was imprisoned, senior BNP leaders had a meeting with the diplomats of around 15 countries on March 13 at the same venue.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 21, 2018 09:56 UTC