BANGLADESH’S former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned to the country from London today after four months of medical treatment, adding to pressure for its interim leaders to hold elections.

The south Asian country has been under a government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus since former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a student-led mass uprising in August last year.

Ms Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have been pushing Mr Yunus’s government to hold a national election in December to return the country to democratic rule.