Day: January 5, 2015

  A security net thrown around BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office will there as long as necessary, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said today. “If police feel that there is no risk for her on the way, she can leave (her Gulshan office),” the minister told reporters at the Secretariat this afternoon. “Personally, I feel she should have the security as long as necessary.” BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been residing in her Gulshan office for the past two days. Supporters and activists have said that she was confined inside the house by police ahead of the party’s protest programmes marking the first anniversary of January 5 election. The road leading to the office has been barricaded off at both ends by a dozen trucks. Law enforcers in plenty, including those from Rap...

  BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia this afternoon announced an indefinite countrywide blockade to protest government restriction on 20-party rally. “The programme will continue until my further instruction. We will set the next course of action after the situation clams down,” she said while speaking to journalists after law enforcers barred her from getting out of her Gulshan office this afternoon. Earlier, she got in her car to leave her office Dhaka’s Gulshan to join an anti-government rally, but cannot leave the office premises as police kept all the gates under lock and key. As the aggrieved BNP activists tried to force open the gate from inside, police used pepper spray on them and scattered them away. Wearing a cream colour sari, Khaleda got in the car around 3:45pm and waite...