Dhaka, May 7 -- After four months of advanced medical treatment in London, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia returned to Dhaka on Tuesday.

Her arrival was met with an outpouring of support as thousands of BNP men lined the roads from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to her Gulshan residence Firoza, which she had left in a wheelchair but entered on foot on the day.

Her flight, a special air ambulance provided by Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, landed in Dhaka at around 10:30am.

She was greeted at the airport's VIP terminal by senior BNP leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Mirza A...