UNB, Dhaka
Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, now in USA on interim bail, has instructed her party not to take part in general elections under the state of emergency.
"I am telling you, at the instruction of Sheikh Hasina, Awami League will not...
Awami League leaders have been meeting British, American, Canadian and Chinese diplomats in the past few days.
A party leader told The Daily newspaper that although several diplomats said the national elections would not be free and fair under...
UNB, Dhaka
The High Court yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition filed by ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina challenging the validity of the Mig-29 warplane purchase scam case against her, clearing the way for her trial to go on.
The case is...
IT HARDLY seemed like a significant event. On August 4th, just 1.5% of Bangladesh’s voters were permitted by the army to go to the polls in the first round of local elections. The vote was held under a state of emergency. Candidates could not...
DHAKA: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Richard Boucher, has told the former Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, that Washington would not accept the rescheduling of general elections, slated to be in December this...
Staff Reporter
Bangabir Kader Siddiqi yesterday said the visit of four advisers to the residence of Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina after her temporary release and their subsequent meeting with her were wrong moves.
"It was wrong on the part of...
Background
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (Bengali: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party in Bangladesh, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nationalist leader and first president of Bangladesh.
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