The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Former Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) chief Sheikh Hasina will return home on November 10 ahead of the parliamentary polls likely to be held on December 18 after around five months of staying abroad for treatment.

Talking to The New Nation, Sheikh Hasina's press secretary Abul Kalam Azad yesterday said that she would arrive at Zia International Airport by an Emirates flight at 8:00 am.

Sheikh Hasina, facing five separate graft cases, was released on June 11 on parole under an executive order of the government on medical ground and flew to the US on June 12 to seek medical treatment.

During the last few months the time limit of her parole was extended on several times, which will end on November 6.

Sheikh Hasina has obtained bail in two cases, as the High Court had ordered not to arrest or harass her in a further two graft cases, but she was denied bail on last Thursday in a fifth case. Sheikh Hasina was arrested on July 16 last year.