{"id":320669,"date":"2025-12-26T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=320669"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:20:21","slug":"bangladesh-nationalist-partys-acting-chairperson-returned-home-after-17-years-in-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=320669","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Nationalist Party&#8217;s Acting Chairperson Returned Home After 17 Years In Exile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DHAKA, Dec 26 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)&#8217;s acting chairperson, Tarique Rahman, returned to the country yesterday, after spending 17 years in exile in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior leaders of the BNP welcomed him at the airport in Dhaka, amid a heavy presence of law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahman, 60, is the elder son of ex-Prime Minister, Begum Khaleda Zia. He has lived in London since 2008, and has been the acting leader of the BNP since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s Election Commission announced earlier this month that, the country&#8217;s first-ever twin polls, the 13th National Parliamentary Election and a referendum, will be held on Feb 12 next year.&#8211; NNN-BSS &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Dec 26 (NNN-BSS) &#8211; Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)&#8217;s acting chairperson, Tarique Rahman, returned to the country yesterday, after spending 17 years in exile in Britain. Senior leaders of the BNP welcomed him at the airport in Dhaka, amid a heavy presence of law enforcement. Rahman, 60, is the elder son of ex-Prime Minister, Begum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":320671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320672,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320669\/revisions\/320672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}