Threat came from ex-US high official

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is welcomed by local Awami League leaders as she reaches Munich Marriott Hotel in Germany yesterday to join the Munich Security Conference 2017. Photo: PID Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the then US secretary of state, assistant secretary and US ambassador in Dhaka had threatened several times that the funding for the Padma bridge project would be withdrawn if Dr Muhammad Yunus was removed as the Grameen Bank managing director.