Bangladesh Hasina's son wants role for her party in reforms, election

The son of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said he was happy with the army chief's timeline for elections within 18 months, though it was later than expected, but warned that genuine reform and polls were impossible without her party. General Waker-uz-Zaman, whose refusal to stand by Hasina in the face of deadly student protests prompted her flight to India in August, has told Reuters that democracy should return within a year to a year-and-a-half. "I'm happy to hear we have an expected timeline at least now," Hasina's son and adviser, Sajeeb Wazed, told Reuters late on Tuesday.