Khaleda Zia to attend event for the first time in six years

BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia will appear in public for the first time in six years as she is scheduled to attend the Armed Forces Day tomorrow.
“The BNP chairperson will go to Senakunja at the Dhaka Cantonment to participate in the Armed Forces Day tomorrow,” Shairul Kabir Khan, a member of BNP Chairperson’s media wing, told The Daily Star quoting ABM Abdus Sattar, personal secretary of the BNP chief.
This will be the first appearance of Khaleda Zia at the Armed Forces Day’s programme at Senakunja since 2010, sources in BNP said.
On Tuesday, the Armed Forces Division of the Chief Advisor’s Office invited BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to the Armed Forces Day celebration.
Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus will be present as the chief guest at the event.
The Armed Forces Day will be celebrated tomorrow amid festivity and enthusiasm, marking the establishment of the forces during the Liberation War.
The day’s programmes will begin with offering of special prayers after Fazr prayers at all mosques in all the cantonments and naval and air force bases throughout the country on the day, seeking divine blessings for the well-being and prosperity of the nation and progress of the armed forces, according to a press release of ISPR.