DHAKA, Dec 5:

The scheduled departure of critically ill former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for London for advance treatment has been deferred to Sunday as an air ambulance offered by Qatar could not reach Dhaka, a senior leader of her party said on Friday.

The 80-year-old head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was hospitalised on November 23, was originally scheduled to leave for London late on Thursday night or early Friday.

“If everything goes well, it (the air ambulance) may arrive tomorrow (Saturday) and if madam’s health permits travel and her medical board gives its approval, then, InshaAllah (God willing), she will fly out on the 7th (Sunday),” BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said.

According to a statement issued by Zia’s media cell, Alam

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