Dhaka, May 5 -- BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia reached Heathrow Airport on Monday to return home aboard a special air ambulance provided by the Emir of Qatar, nearly four months after receiving advanced treatment in London.

"The BNP chief left the home of her elder son and BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman around 2:00pm (GMT) and reached the airport in nearly 40 minutes," said her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain.

He said Tarique personally drove his mother to Heathrow Airport and will see her off there.

Khaleda sat in the rear seat beside Tarique, while Zubaida Rahman and her daughter were in the back seats of the car on their way to the airport.

Several hundred leaders and activists of the BNP's UK Chapter gathered near the air...