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Begum Khaleda Zia[ a ] (born August-September 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician, who served as the Prime minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. [ 3 ] She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and second female prime minister in the Muslim world, after Benazir Bhutto.
Bangladesh's first female leader Khaleda Zia was freed from house arrest on Tuesday, a day after her nemesis Sheikh Hasina quit as premier and fled, one more twist to the decades-old saga of the ...
The political rivalry between Awami League and Nationalist Party dates back to pre-independence Bangladesh where the issue regarding whom proclaimed Independence of Bangladesh, according to many sources it was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman [5] [6] the father of Sheikh Hasina whom proclaimed Bangladeshi independence but to some it was Ziaur Rahman [7] who was the husband of Khaleda Zia.
Electoral history of Khaleda Zia. This is a summary of the electoral history of Khaleda Zia, who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006.
What followed was a decadeslong power struggle between Hasina and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the chief of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who's now ailing and under house ...
2008 Bangladeshi general election. General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, and the Bangladesh Awami League Party, led by Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Awami League Party formed a fourteen-party Grand Alliance including ...
The leaders of two major alliances of the time Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina decided to move for a unified movement against the Ershad regime after a meeting on 28 October 1987 at Mahakhali of the capital. The movement reached a new peak in 1987 after the death of Nur Hossain who died during a police firing on a Jubo League rally. BNP ...
The First Khaleda ministry was the Government of Bangladesh during the 5th and 6th legislative sessions of the Jatiya Sangsad following the 1991 Bangladeshi general election. It began on 20 March 1991 and but had to be sworn in again on 19 September after the 12th constitutional amendment took effect following a constitutional referendum.