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The story so far: On August 6, a day after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Prime Minister and left Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, the ailing ex-Prime Minister of the South Asian country of 170 million was released on President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s orders. The 79-year-old chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been under house arrest since…
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Sheikh Hasina ousted, all eyes in Bangladesh are on the main opposition party – the Bangladesh National party or BNP, whose top leader — former Prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia – has been released from house arrest. Her son Tareue Rehman is returning to Bangladesh. Another top BNP leader who is expected to return is…
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh’s uncompromising former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been released from years of house arrest after her bitter enemy Sheikh Hasina was ousted as premier and fled as protesters stormed her palace. The ferocious rivalry between the two women — born in…
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Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of a “personal political vendetta” against her predecessor and political rival Khaleda Zia, a senior leader from her party on June 23 claimed she is on her “deathbed” as she has been deprived of advance medical treatment abroad. A report…
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In this December 28, 2017, file photo, Bangladesh’s former PM and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, center, leaves after a court appearance in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladeshi doctors said on October 9 opposition leader Khaleda Zia was at “high risk” of dying without urgent medical intervention abroad after authorities rejected a…
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