Sheikh Hasina Family: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned amid protests over job quotas and fled to India. General Waker-Uz-Zaman is also connected to Hasina through family ties, as her cousin-in-law. Hasina’s family history includes the 1975 assassination of her family and her return from exile in 1981. Her late husband was a physicist, and her children are active in politics and global health.