Word: hasina
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...despise each other and whose political organizations - complete with congenital corruption and violent tendencies - have been getting in the way of Bangladesh's progress for a decade and a half. Khaleda Zia, 61, heads the Bangladesh National Party and is the widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman; and Sheik Hasina, 59, leads the Awami League and is the daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Zia blames Hasina's Awami League for her husband's killing, while Hasina believes Zia's husband knew of the plot to kill her father and brothers. Three years ago former U.S. President...
...This time, the Awami League accused the BNP of stacking the caretaker government and the electoral commission with partisans. Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced earlier this month that her coalition would boycott the poll and called for her supporters to "resist" the "one-sided" elections. Bitter rival Khaleda Zia, who was prime minister until last October when she and her government stood down for the agreed-upon caretaker body to take over ahead of the election, insisted the poll should take place no matter what...
...Hasina's accusation has been backed by diplomats such as U.S. ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who said last month that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." But the Awami League too must take some of the blame for the unfolding crisis. Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say that the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands and its early calls to take the fight to the streets - riots in late October set the tone for much that has followed - made confrontation inevitable. "Tactically...
...First, the background: As usual, the elections pits Bangladesh Nationalist Party led by Khaleda Zia, widow of assassinated President Ziaur Rahman, against the Awami League, led by Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangladesh's first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. These have alternated in government every five years since military rule ended in 1991, with the BNP forming the most recent government. Bangladesh's constitution, however, requires that the incumbent party steps down a few months before an election and hands the reins to a neutral caretaker government to run the country and oversee the electoral commission, until the next government...
...viewing the country in a global context and showcasing its success in attracting foreign investment, developing social welfare and promoting economic prosperity. But thanks for those accomplishments should go to the people of Bangladesh, not to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia or even to the leader of the opposition, Sheikh Hasina. As for the rise of the Islamic insurgency, how can the Prime Minister state that she didn't know about it until the Aug. 17, 2005, bombings, when there had been news reports about Bangla Bhai [the founder of two extremist groups] and his alleged co-conspirator, Sheikh Abdur Rahman...