...came from the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia, respectively. The exact number of contestants will not be known until applications have been scrutinized, officials...
... The process suffered setbacks after several politicians, including two former prime ministers, Sheikh Hasina Wajed and Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, were detained under tough emergency powers rule that kept basic rights suspended. The...
...chairperson Khaleda Zia met with some of the alliance leaders separately late Saturday night and discussed about sharing of seats in the upcoming parliamentary election. No meeting of 4-party alliance held, Shafiul Alam Prodhan gets ticket for Dinajpur-3...
...to the BNP central and city offices. Nomination forms for five constituencies were bought on behalf of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia and two on behalf of Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain. Party men engaged in selling nomination forms told...
...has already declared to contest the elections, while the 4-party alliance is yet to take a formal decision to take part. Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina were arrested last year and sent to special jails side by side in the Jatiya Sangsad premises on...
...Zia: ready to hold talks with Sheikh Hasina DHAKA: After 16 years, the former Prime Ministers and political archrivals, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, met at the Armed Forces Day reception at Dhaka Cantonment on Friday. The two leaders, who were jailed...
Background
Khaleda Zia (Bengali: খালেদা জিয়া) (born 15 August 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country's history to hold that position, and then again from 2001 to 2006. She is the widow of assassinated President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman, and leads his old party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. After 35 years of independence of Bangladesh she has ruled the country for about 10 years (longest period). She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996, and 2001, a feat unachieved by any other politician in Bangladeshi history. In 2006, Forbes ranked Khaleda Zia #33 in its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the world.
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