India, Sept. 2 -- Former Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina, in her first telephonic interview with Indian media, has questioned the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government's move to link her extradition to a possible visit to New Delhi by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, pointing out that she intends to return home on her own by December.

The 78-year-old Awami League chief, who has been in self-exile in India since the collapse of her government in August 2024 following student-led protests, pointed to what she said was the hypocrisy of the Tarique Rahman government opposing her virtual news conference from India by noting that Rahman had himself participated in virtual meetings of the BNP from London after giving an undertaking that ...