UNB, Dhaka

Commerce and Education Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Sunday said his recent meeting with BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia focused on participation of the former premier’s party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections and pre-election atmosphere about which some continue to air apprehension.
The adviser of the caretaker government, long engaged in doing the spadework like comprehensive reforms for holding the stalled elections, had a quiet parley with Begum Zia at her cantonment house last Friday, as her party still looked in two minds as to whether or not to go to the polls and raised various demands for creating the congenial situation. [Read more]