{"id":28273,"date":"2017-11-01T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28273"},"modified":"2017-11-01T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:27:06","slug":"bangladeshs-khaleda-zia-faces-sedition-charges-for-allegedly-meeting-with-isi-official-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28273","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh\u2019s Khaleda Zia faces sedition charges for allegedly meeting with ISI official in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dhaka, Nov. 1 (TNS):<\/strong> A pro-Awami League lawyer has accused BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia of sedition for allegedly holding a \u2018secret meeting\u2019 with Pakistani\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, during her three-month stay in the UK, Bengali media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bangabandhu Foundation Executive Chairman Mashiur Rahman filed an RG with the Dhaja Chief Metropolitan Magistrate\u2019s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Magistrate Abdullah Al Masud heard the accusation in the afternoon and has set aside time later in the day to give his opinion on the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>Khaleda flew to London on Jul 15 for medical treatment and to spend time with her family. She returned to Dhaka three months later on Oct 18.<\/p>\n<p>In July, some online news portals reported that Khaleda had met with ISI official at the St James\u2019 Court hotel in London.<\/p>\n<p>Mashiur alleges that the BNP chief allegedly held late-night meetings with a Pakistani intelligence official named Junaid on Jul 18 and Jul 19.<\/p>\n<p>Khaleda\u2019s meeting was meant to create \u2018instability in Bangladesh and instigate a state of war between Bangladesh and India\u2019, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangabandhu Foundation had made inquiries through their London branch into the allegations and confirmed them after the media reports, Mashiur said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were delays in getting the information and so the allegation was also delayed,\u201d he said in response to a question from bdnews24.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Nov. 1 (TNS): A pro-Awami League lawyer has accused BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia of sedition for allegedly holding a \u2018secret meeting\u2019 with Pakistani\u2019s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, during her three-month stay in the UK, Bengali media reported. Bangabandhu Foundation Executive Chairman Mashiur Rahman filed an RG with the Dhaja Chief Metropolitan Magistrate\u2019s Court on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[889,19],"tags":[890,733],"class_list":["post-28273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhaka","category-world","tag-dhaka","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28275,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28273\/revisions\/28275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}