"I am so-so," she said in reply to reporters' query about her well-being during her visit to a hospital in the capital to see former minister Motiur Rahman Nizami, the cheif of Jamaat-e-Islami, a key partner of BNP in the four-party alliance.

"I am not that well, as you can see," she told the journalists as they kept on asking her questions about her health.

Emran Saleh Prince, assistant office secretary of BNP, and a few women leaders of the party accompanied Khaleda to the hospital where the Jamaat leader is undergoing treatment.

Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mujahid, and Assistant Secretary General ATM Ajharul Islam welcomed Khaleda at the hospital at 6:45pm, who stayed there for about 25 minutes.

"I've come here to see Motiur Rahman Nizami, it will take time for him to get well," the BNP chairperson said as she was leaving the hospital.

Senior leaders of BNP however were not accompanying their chairperson.

Khaleda's physical condition is not well, and she is also suffering from depression as her elder son Tarique Rahman is in jail and her younger son Koko might also be arrested any time, sources, who met her several times in the last week, told The Daily Star last night.

According to another party source, Khaleda Zia has no contact with other party leaders as most of them are trying to avoid her due to the 'changed situation'. Even the leaders who have been advocating for reforms in the party are also now maintaining low profiles to avoid 'harassments', the source added.

Sources said arrests of Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil, and BNP leader and former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar brought a new dimension to the 'changed situation', making other BNP leaders worried than ever before.

Leaders who accompanied Khaleda on May 30 to the mausoleum of the party's founder, late president Ziaur Rahman, to observe his death anniversary, are also 'frightened' due to the latest arrests of political leaders.