Word: khaleda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...flight is particularly hard on more prosperous Kurds, who are no more prepared to endure the rigors of refugee life than American suburbanites would . be. Khaleda, 19, a well-dressed university student, escaped with her brother and two cousins. Their parents gave them the car and told them to go, fearing that the Iraqis would kidnap and kill the young people, as they had after past uprisings...
...they have languished in the long queue of cars on the Iraqi side of the border for two weeks. Khaleda and her friends, seeing the hardships ahead in the refugee camp, are among a very small group who have decided to go back to their parents and take a chance that Saddam will honor his pledge of amnesty for the Kurds. "We can't stand it," she says. "At home we have a nice big house and lots of money. We don't trust Saddam. But we hope he will leave us alone." Nothing in her face shows that...
...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...Both Khaleda and her partner in the movement's leadership, Sheik Hasina Wazed, now stand a good chance of ruling their desperately poor, densely ) populated Muslim homeland of 110 million. Hasina, 43, is a daughter of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the 19-year-old nation's founding father, while Khaleda, 46, is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, the South Asian country's military ruler from 1975 to 1981. Both leaders were assassinated in army revolts...