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...minutes. Shortly after six o'clock, when Sayed Muhammad Ibrahim, a former soldier and an expert on security issues, was on his way home, he heard that several hand grenades had been flung at the rally in an apparent attempt to kill Hasina and the entire leadership of her Awami League party. The initial reports were unclear about Hasina's fate. Ibrahim, a decorated hero of his country's war of liberation in 1971, shivered. "I thought to myself, what will happen to my country now, what will happen to my friends? Only Allah knows...
...Hours later, a shaken Hasina accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's four-party coalition government, which includes two fundamentalist Islamic parties, of carrying out the attack in a bid to destroy the Awami League, traditionally the country's liberal, non-Islamist party. "How can a well-planned assassination attempt take place in the heart of Dhaka without the complicity and involvement of the government?" she told TIME. The government flatly denies the charge, calling it "ridiculous," but Hasina's followers are in no mood to believe this. Bangladesh's already polarized political culture?in which the ruling party...
...cross-section of Bangladeshis, from prominent businessmen to shopkeepers to truck drivers, complains that the government has failed to crack down on lawlessness. "The general perception is that corruption has worsened under the present regime," says TI's Murshid. The rise in extortion and violence has led the opposition Awami League (AL) to organize repeated strikes to try to force the government to resign. But the strikes are hobbling the economy and contributing to the growing consensus that the authorities are not in full control?thus emboldening criminals even further, and making matters worse for ordinary citizens. "The two parties...
...Bangladesh, demonstrators thronged the streets of Dhaka, the capital, and were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until...
...first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Both these claims should be taken with a grain of salt. First, Mr. Bhutto refused to recognize the outcome of the Pakistan General Elections held in 1970. He persuaded the then General of Pakistan not to transfer power to the Awami League Party of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) which had clearly won the elections. This led to a genocide in which three million innocent East Pakistanis were massacred and the nation of Bangladesh was born. (In fact, some of Ms. Bhutto's close friends, for example, the Galbraiths, recall that she was, during...