The Crime Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached Saudi Arabia to attend the international conference on ‘Women in Islam’ held in Jeddah. On Sunday (November 5) at 1:10 PM local time, the plane carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah.
Earlier, the flight left Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 9:10 a.m. Saudi Arabia is hosting the conference from November 6–8 in coordination with the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The Prime Minister will visit the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) at Masjid an-Nabawi in Madinah and recite Fateha after Asr prayers there. He will then leave Madinah by train for Jeddah. After the Isha prayer, the Prime Minister will perform the holy Umrah at Masjidul Haram (Kaaba Sharif) in Makkah.
On November 6, the Prime Minister will address an international conference on ‘Women in Islam’. He is scheduled to meet with OIC Secretary General Hissen Brahim Taha, Vice President of Iran’s Department of Women and Family Affairs Enseih Khajali, OIC Women’s Development Executive Director Dr. Afnan Alshuaibi, and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. Apart from attending the conference, she will attend the inauguration of the exhibition titled ‘Women in Islam’ and a dinner organized in her honor.
