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...reacts with fury to reports of jihadi camps or fundamentalism within its borders. The reason isn't hard to fathom. In October 2001 two Islamic fundamentalist parties with a history of links to terror groups were elected as part of a four-way electoral alliance led by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The accession of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islamic Oikya Jote to power in Bangladesh rang alarm bells. Islamic Oikya Jote is open about its sympathies: it is well known for its support of Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The party...
...BANGLADESH Opposition Victory The power struggle between two former women Prime Ministers continued after Begum Khaleda Zia swept to power and was immediately challenged by ousted leader Sheik Hasina Wazed. Unofficial results gave the alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party two-thirds of the 300 seats in Parliament in a general election marred by violence but described by international monitors as "generally free and fair...
Samad's union with Alsana Begum, then 20, couldn't have begun more differently--it was arranged--but it too is a negotiation in disappointment. Which is in part why the men turn to O'Connell's, for "it feels good--no it feels great--to know at least one particular place, one particular period, from firsthand experience, eye-witness reports; to be the authority, to have time on your side, for once, for once." Smith later turns her attention to the next generation, to Archie's daughter Irie, an unwieldy girl who feels herself "a stranger in a stranger...
...reconsidering her decision to attend the conference. Sadik knew that Bhutto's absence could be especially damaging. Not only was she to deliver a keynote speech, but she would also be the only female head of a Muslim country in attendance. Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller of Turkey and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh had both backed out, although their countries were still sending delegations. Herself a Pakistani Muslim, Sadik reassured Bhutto's Foreign Secretary that "all opposing views would be discussed" at the conference. At week's end Islamabad reaffirmed Bhutto's commitment to be in Cairo...
Before the tempest struck, Delwara Begum and her family went to bed untroubled by the roaring winds, even though the monsoon season was approaching. Delwara was too poor to own a radio and did not know that the government had announced a signal-9 storm -- the second most severe warning -- earlier in the day. As the 20-ft. tidal waves destroyed her house, Delwara clutched her six-year-old daughter, clung to a bamboo beam, and was washed up battered but alive seven miles away; her husband and five other children perished...