DHAKA: Renowned Bollywood actress and UNISEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Priyanka Chopra made the call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganabhaban on Thursday afternoon (May 24) while PM’s younger sister Sheikh Rehana was also present. 

Priyanka Chopra arrived in Dhaka on May 21 and went to Cox’s Bazar to visit Rohingya refugees who took shelter there fleeing persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. 

Priyanka Chopra said the world should learn from Bangladesh how to respond to call of humanity as she met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after her visit to Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, said premier's office spokesman quoting her after the meeting. 

PM's additional press secretary Nazrul Islam said the Bollywood celebrity particularly praised Sheikh Hasina for shouldering the burden of over a million forcibly displaced ethnic minority population of Myanmar during her courtesy call on Sheikh Hasina. 

He said Chopra, who visited the Rohihya camps for the second time in months, shared her comparative experience of interacting with the children there saying over the months they visibly overcame the trauma of violence they witnessed at their homeland.

The Bollywood actress, however, feared the Rohingya children still were exposed to a hazardous situation in their camps while on behalf of the UN children fund she called upon international community to extend all out support for the Rohingyas.

BDST: 2135 HRS, MAY 24, 2018
AP