Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the students of Azimpur Girls School and College to concentrate on studies to uphold the glorious image of the institution.

"I want the students of this school to concentrate on studies to secure better results to glorify its image," Hasina, who studied in the school, said while inaugurating the golden jubilee programmes of the institution.

The AL chief cut a cake and celebrated the occasion spending the whole day with friends from her girlhood days.

Recalling her golden days at school during the turbulent 1960s, Hasina said, "My friends and I took part in the [political] movements, but at the same time we were attentive to our studies.

"I wish I could return to my school days, but it is not possible as I am 60 now," Hasina, who passed the SSC examination from the school in 1965, said in a nostalgic note.

College Principal Dr Hosne Ara chaired the daylong function. Kazi Manjur-e-Mowla, son of the first headmaster of the school--Kazi Ambar Ali, Mohammad Ferdous Khan, Dr Kaneez Siddiqui, and Mohammad Hanif, deputy commissioner of Dhaka and president of the school's governing body, attended the function.

Hasina's batch mates at the school, Rahela Banu, now a professor at the Language Institute of Dhaka University, Nargis Majid, teacher of Aga Khan School, Dr Selima Rozy, Dr Masuda Gani and journalist Nasimun Ara Huq also went to meet their old friends and celebrate the occasion.