Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday arrived in Madinah on a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia to attend the international conference on Women in Islam: Status and Empowerment to be held in Jeddah.

A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the PM and her entourage landed at Prince Mohammad Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport in Madinah at 1:10pm local time (Bangladesh time 4:10pm).

Saudi Arabia, in coordination with the general secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, is hosting the conference in November 6-8.

On Sunday, the prime minister will offer Fateha at the Rawza Mubarak of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM) after Asr prayer. Then Sheikh Hasina will 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 PM will have meetings with Iranian vice-president for Women and Family Affairs Department Enseieh Khazali, executive director of OIC Women Development Organisation 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 PM will offer prayers in the Masjid al-Haram.

Sheikh Hasina will leave Makkah for Dhaka by a commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from King Abdulaziz International Airport at about 10:45pm local time on Tuesday. The flight is scheduled to land at Dhaka at 8:00am on Wednesday.

The international conference on women in Islam is being held aiming to clarify women’s rights and responsibilities in Islam, especially women’s rights to education and work as per the teachings of Islam, with broad participation from scholars of the Muslim Ummah.