Word: zia
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...fragile democracies. After Bangladesh returned to civilian leadership in 1991 following 15 years of mostly military rule, the two main political parties-the secular, nationalist Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina and the more Islamic-leaning and pro-business Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia-agreed that the incumbent party would step down a couple of months before every election. A neutral caretaker government would briefly run the country and the election commission until a new government was elected. The system is an admission of the coddling Bangladesh's democracy needs to survive. But, despite...
...question are more than prima donnas. They are the rival former Prime Ministers of the country, who 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...
...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...
...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...
...DIED. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, strong-willed President of Pakistan who dismissed two democratically elected governments; in Peshawar. Khan, who served as Finance Minister and chairman of the Senate, replaced General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq as President after Zia's death in a plane crash in 1988. In 1990 he removed Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, and in 1993 dispatched her successor, Nawaz Sharif, over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A Supreme Court ruling to restore Sharif to his position threw the country into turmoil, prompting an intervention by Pakistan's powerful military, which forced Khan...