Dhaka, Dec 12 (PTI) Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman, who has been living in self-exile in London for 17 years, will return to Bangladesh on December 25, the BNP said on Friday.

The announcement by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came as its 80-year-old chairperson Zia’s health condition deteriorated and she was placed on ventilator support on Thursday.

“We are pleased to announce that our Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will return to Dhaka on December 25," BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters after a meeting of the party’s policy-making standing committee.

Alamgir added: “The party welcomes him." Rahman, the self-exiled 60-year-old has been living in London since 2008. For obscure reasons, he has been unable to ret

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