Mahbubul Hoque Shakil, special assistant to Prime Minister
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
, told the Dhaka Tribune that the prime minister had issued directives to begin the search operation.
"Two frigates and two patrol aircraft will conduct search operation in the Bay of Bengal," he said. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared last Saturday (March 8) with 239 people on board.
Bangladesh will join the search at a time when the search area had been expanded following reports that the plane had been "deliberately flown across" the Malay peninsula towards the Andaman Islands. The disappearance of the airliner remains a "mystery" as there is still no trace of its wreckage.