Dhaka, June 10 -- BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is expected to return to Bangladesh "soon", party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Monday.

"Tarique Rahman will certainly return to the country. Of course, he will come back," he said while speaking to reporters at the BNP Chairperson's political office in Gulshan.

Asked by journalists when exactly the BNP acting chairman might return home, Fakhrul said, "He will return soon."

Fakhrul, however, did not give any exact date for the return of Tarique who has been living in the United Kingdom since 2008.

Earlier, the BNP leader confirmed that Tarique will hold a formal meeting with Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus, who is currently visiting the UK, on Friday, June 13...