Dhaka: Bangladesh’s interim government on Wednesday said it will continue diplomatic efforts to bring back from India deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been convicted and sentenced in multiple cases.

The 78-year-old Awami League leader has been living in India since she fled Bangladesh on August 5 last year in the face of the massive protests.

“We will try to convince India to send her back to Dhaka,” Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain was quoted as saying by the state-run BSS news agency.

Touhid noted that Hasina’s repatriation ultimately depends on India’s decision.

On Saturday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Hasina came to India “in a certain circumstance and I think that circumstance clearly sort of is a factor in what happens to her. But again, that is som

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