Khaleda congratulates Suu Kyi

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a statement yesterday congratulated Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy for the landslide victory the party was heading for in the general elections in Myanmar.

Meanwhile, during a press conference at the party headquarters in the capital, BNP spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon called the arrest order for BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman illegal, saying that according to law he was not a fugitive and was under treatment in London.

A Dhaka court ordered his arrest on Sunday in a sedition case filed for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman "Pakbandhu" (friend of Pakistan).