PM Hasina arrives in Madina to attend Women in Islam conference
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Will address conference as guest of honour
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday arrived in Madina on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia to attend an international conference, Women in Islam: Status and Empowerment, to be held in Jeddah.
A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage landed at Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madina at 1:10pm local time (4:10 pm Bangladesh time).
Saudi Arabia in coordination with the general secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is hosting the conference from November Monday to Wednesday.
On Sunday, the prime minister will recite Surah Al-Fatihah at the Rawza Mubarak of the Prophet (PBUH) after Asr prayers. Sheikh Hasina will then leave Madina for Jeddah and then perform Umrah in Makkah.
On Monday, she will join the opening event of the International Conference on Women in Islam and deliver her speech as the guest of honour.
Besides, the prime minister will have separate meetings with Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Department Enseieh Khazali, Executive Director of OIC Women Development Organization Dr Afnan Alshuaiby and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan.
She also will attend the inauguration of the Women in Islam Exhibition to be arranged by Princess Noura University on the same day.
On Tuesday, the Bangladesh prime minister will offer prayers at Masjid al-Haram.
Sheikh Hasina will leave Makkah for home on a commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from King Abdulaziz International Airport at about 10:45 pm local time (Tuesday). The flight is scheduled to land in Dhaka at 8am on Wednesday.
The international conference on women in Islam is being held to clarify women’s rights and responsibilities in Islam, especially women’s rights to education and work according to the teachings of Islam, with broad participation from scholars of the Muslim Ummah.
Source: UNB