Bangladesh economy under pressure amid ‘uncharted’ political turmoil
Hopes that interim government under Muhammad Yunus can restore stability and address country’s inequalities.
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Hopes that interim government under Muhammad Yunus can restore stability and address country’s inequalities.
“She said she will never go back to Bangladesh,” Sajeeb Wazed, Hasina’s son and an adviser in her ousted government, said in a phone interview from Washington. “In fact, to be entirely candid, she told me that none of our family will ever go back to Bangladesh.”
The Nobel laureate is expected to bring back peace, revive the economy and pave way for free and fair elections.
“Inni, we are independent!” my 26-year-old cousin chanted from Shahbagh, a neighborhood in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, as millions joined a major protest march on Monday to the country’s Parliament House.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman then reached out to Hasina’s office, conveying to the prime minister that his soldiers would be unable to implement the lockdown she had called for, according to an Indian official briefed on the matter.
Following weeks of protests, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country.