EAM Jaishankar travels to Dhaka for Khaleda Zia’s funeral

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar will represent the government and people of India at the funeral of Khaleda Zia, the first woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), on Wednesday.

Zia, a three-time Prime Minister and long-time chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), died early Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness. She was 80.

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the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), EAM Jaishankar will arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday to attend the funeral of the late leader.

According to a statement issued by Zia’s party, she died at around 6 a.m. at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, where she had been undergoing treatment for over a month.

Zia had been admitted to the private hospital on November 23 after developing serious complications involving her heart and lungs.