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Published : 05 Dec 2025, 12:12 PM
Zubaida Rahman has gone to her family home in Dhanmondi after arriving in Dhaka from London and visiting her mother-in-law BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in hospital.
She left Evercare Hospital around 2:47pm, according to BNP spokesman Atikur Rahman Rumon.
He said, “[She] went straight to Evercare Hospital upon her arrival from London. She stood by the bed of [Khaleda], and also met with doctors on her most recent condition.”
“Now she is at Mahbub Bhaban, the Dhanmondi home of her father (the late rear admiral Mahbub Ali Khan). Her mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu is there.”
Zubaida's flight from London landed at Shahjalal International Airport around 10:45am on Friday.
From the airport, she went straight to Evercare Hospital to be with her mother-in-law.
The convoy carrying Zubaida arrived at the hospital in the Bashundhara Residential Area around 11:45am on Friday.
She had left London aboard a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 6pm local time on Thursday.
Zubaida is to accompany Khaleda to London on Qatar’s royal air ambulance so that the BNP chief can receive advanced treatment. But a technical glitch on the air ambulance has delayed their departure for the moment.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the air ambulance will arrive on Saturday if the problem can be resolved soon.
“If Madam (Khaleda) is fit to travel and the medical board approves, then, In Sha Allah, she will fly out on the 7th (Sunday).”
Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, Khaleda’s personal physician, said around midnight on Thursday that Khaleda was under close observation at Evercare Hospital’s Critical Care Unit.
Zubaida had previously accompanied the BNP chief on her trip to Dhaka from London on May 5. She then returned to London on Jun 5 after staying in Dhaka for a month.
Khaleda, the 79-year-old former prime minister, has spent the several in an “extremely critical” condition at the private Evercare Hospital in Dhaka. Doctors now say she is stable enough to travel.
Preparations for her transfer began after a medical board gave formal approval to move her abroad. The BNP and the country’s interim government have both called for special prayers across Bangladesh after Friday noon prayers for her recovery.
Dr Zahid said a hospital in London has been selected in consultation with local and foreign specialists. Several BNP figures say Khaleda’s son and Acting BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has agreed to the plan.
In January, Khaleda flew to London on the same Qatari air ambulance and was admitted to The London Clinic. After a period of hospital care, she continued her recovery at Tarique’s home.
By early May, her condition had improved enough for her to return to Dhaka on the same aircraft, again accompanied by Zubaida. It was Zubaida’s first trip to Bangladesh in 17 years.
Tarique, Zubaida, and their daughter Zaima Rahman went to London in 2008 for advanced treatment after his release from prison.
