The Bangladeshi government has rejected the application for a new identity card and passport of former Prime Minister Hasina Wajid, who is in India. Bangladeshi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir told the media that our country does not provide passports to any terrorist.
He further said that Hasina Wajid is a fugitive criminal and Bangladesh has an extradition treaty with India and we want India to hand over Hasina Wajid to us. Humayun Kabir sarcastically said that should we treat Hasina like a common traveler and tell her to come and visit her in-laws’ house?
It is believed that Sheikh Hasina had applied for a new passport and identity card to return home from her self-imposed exile in India. Sheikh Hasina has told the foreign news agency ‘Reuters’ that she intends to return home and appear before the court.
Sheikh Hasina’s aides said that the final date for her return would be announced after various official and legal procedures are completed.
It should be noted that a Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced her to death in absentia for ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising in November last year, although Sheikh Hasina has denied all these charges while in exile.