PM returns home on Saturday

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home in the morning on Saturday, wrapping up her three-week visit to the United States and United Kingdom. Prime minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS over phone from the British capital on Friday that a VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh airlines had been scheduled to depart Heathrow International Airport in London at 6:20pm local time (Bangladesh time 11:20 pm) on the day. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Nazmul Qaunine was set to see the prime minister off at the airport. The flight is scheduled to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 9:25am on Saturday. Bangladesh Awami League will accord a mass reception to the prime minister and party president on her return from the USA. The leaders and workers of Awami League and its associate bodies will greet the prime minister by standing on both sides of roads from the airport to Ganabhaban, her official residence. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader had made a fervent appeal to the people of all strata, including leaders and workers of the party, its Dhaka North and South City units and associate bodies to make the reception an all-out success by taking position at their respective places by 8:30 am on Saturday. Winding up her 16-day official visit to the USA, Sheikh Hasina left Washington on Monday for London on her way back home. She reached New York on September 17 to join the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session. The prime minister then travelled to the US capital from New York on September 22, after attending the UN's annual summit. After staying in Washington for a week, she was scheduled to return home on October 2 via London. But the date was deferred as the prime minister underwent a gallbladder surgery at a Washington hospital on September 25.