Former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib’s residence attacked after Hasina media occasion

Home windows had 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 removing from energy, by which she vowed to returnin December.

Police stated a bunch of individuals attacked Shakib’s ancestral residence in Magura city, about 170 km (105 miles) southwest of the capital Dhaka on Wednesday, inflicting a fireplace on the higher flooring of the residence. ⁠The property was unoccupied on the time and no accidents had 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 International Correspondents’ Membership of South Asia in New Delhi. Through the audio deal with, Hasinareiterated that she would return to Bangladesh, the place she has been sentenced to demise.

Shakib, who was elected to parliament as an Awami League candidate in January 2024, has remained outdoors Bangladesh because the 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’ll return to my individuals,” Hasina stated. “I do know that they could put me in jail or they could kill me, however nonetheless I’ve to return.”

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 stated the ban ⁠on the Awami League, the social gathering she led for greater than 4 many years, must be lifted after it was barred from political exercise following her ouster.

Bangladesh’s overseas ministry condemned Hasina’s media look, describing it as “an affront to the ⁠sovereignty of Bangladesh” and warning that permitting her to handle 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 underneath its authorized procedures.

In November 2025, the nation’s warfare crimes tribunal sentenced her to demise in absentia over the lethal crackdown on the 2024 student-led rebellion, expenses she has dismissed as politically motivated.