Anti-independence quarters now failed: PM UNB 10th January, 2021 09:25:25 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the vested quarters who tried to foil Bangladesh's independence have now failed. "Those who tried to foil independence have now failed," she said. The Prime Minister said this while virtually addressing a discussion marking the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from her official residence Ganobhaban. Awami League organised the discussion at its central office at 23 Bangabandhu Avenue. On January 10, 1972, Bangabandhu had returned to the independent and sovereign Bangladesh after over nine and a half months of captivity in a Pakistan jail. He was subjected to inhuman torture in the jail where he had been counting moments for the execution of his death sentence that was pronounced in a farcical trial.