Dhaka, Bangladesh: June 12, 2008 - International Reporter (IRS)- Sheikh Hasina, 61, the Former Bangladesh Prime Minister has been released on Tuesday for 8 weeks for an interim period from June 11 to August 6 to get her treatment in United Statues on the recommendation of the medical board.

There are certain unconfirmed reports that she has been ill treated during detention and made her to slowly lose her vision and power of hearing and also to lose the state of stable blood pressure, Hasina has not confirmed this foul play through some manipulation.

She now requires an urgent treatment for her fluctuating blood pressure, failing vision in one eye and damage to her ear. She has left for US just after a day of her temporary release.
 
She has been undergoing detention for 11 months till July 16, 2008 on corruption charges but relieved for medical treatment.

"I am well," Hasina was quoted by The Star Online as saying before her departure. 
Her telephonic talk on Wednesday with Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed, who heads Bangladesh's caretaker government, and her meeting with four of the advisors (ministers) would get the dialogue for the general elections going, media reports said on Thursday.

The Awami League, the country's oldest political party that she heads, has formally confirmed that it would join the political dialogue.

Hasina will meet her younger sister Sheikh Rehana at Heathrow airport in London on way to Boston where she will meet her lone son Sajiv Wazed Joy, Hasan Mahmud, a close aid to Hasina, told reporters on Thursday.

She will also fly to Canada to meet her daughter Saima Wazed Putul before leaving for Florida, he said.

Now a new political turn is likely to take some shape on the release of Hasina.