PM Hasina to return home tomorrow

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return home from London on Thursday wrapping up her official visit to the United Kingdom.

“The prime minister will depart London this afternoon (local time) and reach Dhaka tomorrow morning [Thursday] Bangladesh time,” PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS over phone from London on Wednesday.

Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) sources said here a Biman Bangladesh Airlines VVIP flight carrying the prime minister will leave from Heathrow International Airport in London for Dhaka at 6:20pm (London time) today.

The flight is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka tomorrow morning, the sources said.

Sheikh Hasina went to London on 19 July.

During her stay in London, the PM attended the Bangladeshi envoys’ conference on 20 July.

Commonwealth secretary general Patricia Scotland QC and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon separately called on Sheikh Hasina in the British capital.

On 22 July, the prime minister underwent a successful surgery in her left eye at a London hospital, the press secretary said.