Bangladesh To Pursue Efforts To Bring Back Hasina From India: Adviser

Dhaka- Bangladesh's interim government on Wednesday said it will continue diplomatic efforts to bring back from India deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been convicted and sentenced in multiple cases.

The 78-year-old Awami League leader has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests.

“We will try to convince India to send her back to Dhaka,” Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain was quoted as saying by the state-run BSS news agency.

Touhid noted that Hasina's repatriation ultimately depends on India's decision.

On Saturday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Hasina came to India“in a certain circumstance and I think that circumstance clearly sort of is a factor in what happens to her. But again, that is something which she has to make up her mind.”

Responding to reports suggesting possible third-country resettlement for the former premier, Touhid said he had only seen such claims in media coverage.

“I did not receive any information through diplomatic channels,” he added.

Touhid had earlier said Bangladesh was not ruling out a response from India.

On November 17, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death for“crimes against humanity” committed during the July-August mass uprising last year.

Following the court verdict, Bangladesh sent a letter to India seeking her extradition.

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