DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from London after wrapping up her official visit to the United Kingdom (UK) for almost three weeks.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines VVIP flight carrying the prime minister and her entourage members departed from Heathrow International Airport in London for Dhaka at 6:55 pm (London time) and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here around 10:45am.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem saw the premier off at Heathrow International Airport.

Sheikh Hasina went to London on July 19.

During her stay there, the premier attended the Bangladeshi envoys’ conference on July 20.

Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland QC and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon separately called on Sheikh Hasina in the British capital.

The prime minister underwent a successful surgery in her left eye at a London hospital on July 22.

BDST: 1113 HRS, AUG 8, 2019
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