The Bangladeshi government is going to enact a new law to ensure security to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister, daughters of the country's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, local newspaper The Independent reported on Tuesday.

The Home Ministry has already prepared a draft of the Father of the Nation's Family Members' Security Act upon getting instruction from the Cabinet Division recently, the English-language newspaper said quoting sources in the ministry.

The draft of the Act will be placed soon at the cabinet meeting for its approval, the report said.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the eldest daughter of the country's first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who led the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.

When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in 1975, the assassins killed every member of his family they found in the house. Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana survived the carnage as they were in Germany at that time.

After the enactment of the proposed law, Hasina and her sister would get full-time security provided by the members of the Special Security Force (SSF) and other security personnel during their movement and also at their residences, The Independent said quoting sources.

A high official of the Home Ministry told the newspaper that Hasina and her sister Rehana are now under death threat as the government has started the process for trial of the war criminals of 1971 and curbing militancy in the country.

The official said the Bangladeshi government on June 21, 2001 once enacted the Act of 2001 on Father of the Nation's Family Members' Security as Hasina faced a number of assassination threats.

But the government led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), now the main opposition party, scrapped the Act after they assumed power in December 2001, the home ministry official said.

Source: Xinhua