Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan in the course of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 England towards Bangladesh match, Himachal Pradesh Cricket Affiliation Stadium, Dharamsala, India, October 10, 2023. — ReutersAttackers hurl bricks and two petrol bombs at home.Higher-floor fireplace breaks out however no accidents reported.Hasina vows to return in December, needs celebration ban lifted.
DHAKA: Home windows have been smashed and petrol bombs hurled at former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan’s residence after he joined ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s first public media interplay since her 2024 elimination from energy, through which she vowed to return in December.
Police mentioned a bunch of individuals attacked Shakib’s ancestral dwelling in Magura city, about 170 km (105 miles) southwest of the capital Dhaka on Wednesday, inflicting a fireplace on the higher ground of the residence. The property was unoccupied on the time and no accidents have been reported.
Reuters was unable to achieve Shakib for touch upon the assault.
The assault got here hours after Shakib, a former Awami League lawmaker, joined a digital occasion organised by the Overseas Correspondents’ Membership of South Asia in New Delhi. Throughout the audio deal with, Hasina reiterated that she would return to Bangladesh, the place she has been sentenced to dying.
Shakib, who was elected to parliament as an Awami League candidate in January 2024, has remained exterior Bangladesh for the reason that student-led rebellion that toppled Hasina’s authorities. He faces a number of investigations, together with over allegations of homicide, embezzlement, fraud and cash laundering.
“I will return to my people,” Hasina mentioned. “I know that they may put me in jail or they may kill me, but still I have to go back.”
The occasion, held on the second anniversary of her ouster, was Hasina’s first public interplay with the media since she fled Bangladesh in 2024.
Hasina additionally mentioned the ban on the Awami League, the celebration she led for greater than 4 a long time, must be lifted after it was barred from political exercise following her ouster.
Bangladesh’s international ministry condemned Hasina’s media look, describing it as “an affront to the sovereignty of Bangladesh” and warning that permitting her to deal with the media from India might hurt bilateral relations.
Hasina, 78, has been residing in New Delhi since August 2024. Bangladesh has sought her extradition from India, which says the request is being examined below its authorized procedures.
In November 2025, the nation’s struggle crimes tribunal sentenced her to dying in absentia over the lethal crackdown on the 2024 student-led rebellion, expenses she has dismissed as politically motivated.
