Dhaka, May 18 -- The BNP has mourned the loss of veteran leader Mizanur Rahman Sinha, with senior figures gathering at Dhaka's Naya Paltan to pay their last respects.

Sinha's coffin, draped in the party flag, arrived at the party's central office at 10am on Monday.

Vice-Chairman Asaduzzaman Ripon, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint Secretaries General Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel, Abdus Salam Azad, Voluntary Affairs Secretary Mir Sarafat Ali Sapu, and MPs Quamruzzaman Ratan and SM Jilani offered their tributes with flowers.

A Namaz-e-Janaza, or funeral prayer, was held in front of the office before the tributes, attended by Ripon, Rizvi, Sohel, and leaders and activists from BNP's central committee and affiliated organ...