, Dec. 30 -- Professor AZM Zahid Hossain, personal physician of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday recalled her deep sense of motherly affection towards those around her.

He shared his memories while speaking to journalists at the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan office.

"Those of us who had the opportunity to work closely with Begum Khaleda Zia saw two sides of her," Dr Zahid said. "On the one hand, she was truly a guardian figure, and on the other, she cared for us with deep motherly affection."

He said no one could leave her residence without eating. "She would always ask whether the doctors had eaten, whether those working with her had been served food," he recalled.

Dr Zahid, also a BNP Standing Comm...