The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The Government has extended the parole of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko, who is undergoing treatment abroad, by two more months until January 16, 2009.

A Home Ministry order on Saturday said Koko's parole had been extended after his lawyer AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan prayed for it on Monday. Terms and conditions of the parole will remain the same.

Detained in the Dhaka Central Jail and then at Prison Cell of BSMMU Hospital since his arrest on September 3, 2007, Koko is now undergoing treatment in a Bangkok Hospital. He was originally given two months parole from July 17, 2008.