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	Bangladesh Nationalist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The party's chair is General Zia's widow, Begum Khaleda Zia, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
		In 2001 elections the BNP and its allies got 46% of the vote and 215 of the 300 seats in Parliament, while the secular Awami League got 40% of the votes and 62 seats to become the largest opposition party.
		The BNP promotes a very right-of-center policy, and is often accused of being too soft on the fundamentalist segments of the political establishment, sections of which want to establish Sharia law in Bangladesh replacing the current secular constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bangladesh_Nationalist_Party (283 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Being motivated by the nationalist activities of Jatiyatabadi Ganatantrik Dal, Ziaur Rahman went in to form the Bangladesh Nationalist Party having in view the forthcoming election for the jatiya sangsad.
		When BNP was established as a political party, the nation was a divided one, divided not only on the basis of political ideology, earmarked as right, centre and left, but also on the basis of participation in the war of liberation marked as pro-liberation and anti-liberation forces.
		The succeeding chairman of BNP and the newly elected President of the country Justice Abdus Sattar was ousted by a military coup led by the then army chief hussain m ershad, and martial law was promulgated on 24 March 1982.
	banglapedia.org /HT/B_0226.HTM (679 words)

	Bangladesh Government
		In the first free and fair general elections in many years, after the fall of the autocratic regime, held in 1991, under a non-partisan interim government and monitored by observers from across the world, her party BNP spearheading a 7-party alliance, was voted to power and she was elected Bangladesh’s first woman Prime Minister.
		It was during her tenure that Bangladesh’s involvement began to increase rapidly in international peacekeeping efforts under the UN blue helmets.
		Bangladesh enjoyed a positive image in the international community at the time for which very big investment teams, as never before or afterwards, were sent by Japan, Great Britain, to name a few.
	www.salman15.20m.com /bangladesh_government.htm (1314 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Asia : Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bangladesh is stoking an emerging AIDS epidemic with violent police abuse of sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men.
		Bangladesh is stoking an emerging AIDS epidemic with violent police abuse of sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report released today.
		The fierce struggle for power between Bangladesh's main political parties has fostered a situation of lawlessness and civil strife in which wanton acts of violence and intimidation by both the former ruling party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, backed by security forces, and the opposition parties, have become routine features of the political process.
	www.hrw.org /asia/bangladesh.php (1410 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Politics: Elections 1991
		It is statistically possible for a party to win a majority in parliament even if another party received a majority of the popular votes.
		In Rajshahi and Chittagong BNP and AL are evenly split.
		BNP fared poorly in Sylhet, CHT, Faridpur,Khulna and Dinajpur.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_polls_91.html (579 words)

	Bangladesh - The National Party
		Reverse currents were observed in the mid-1980s, as individual leaders fell from favor and lost their cabinet posts or else left the national party to form their own political factions, but the overall trend was toward a steady increase in the membership and influence of the dominant party.
		This was notable progress for a party with a program essentially the same as that of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (the party in total control only five years earlier), which controlled only 34 (7.4 percent) of the subdistrict chairmanships.
		In the 1970s, observers were unwilling to predict the actions of the military because it was torn by internal divisions between freedom fighters and returnees from West Pakistan, political groups of the far left and the right, and factional infighting among leftist factions.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-1194.html (892 words)

	Bangladeshlive - A Place Where Bangladesh Is Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bangladesh is a unitary, independent, sovereign Republic to be known as the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
		A judge holds his office until he attains the age of 67 (previously 65) and cannot be removed except on the ground of physical or mental disability or due to serious misconduct.
		Parliament of Bangladesh is not an exception to this nearly universal phenomenon.
	www.bangladeshlive.net /964512.html (2998 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Politics
		Most of these are small, fringe parties formed mostly by a small coterie of like minded intellectuals or politicians who usually have broken away from larger groupings.
		The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies form the right-of-center to conservative grouping in Bangladesh.
		The fifth major pary is the party founded by ex-military ruler General Ershad, the Jatiyo Party (JP) is ideologically not too different from the AL or the BNP but operates independently.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_politics.html (494 words)

	rediff.com: Bangladesh president resigns
		Bangladesh's President A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury resigned on Frday night under pressure from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which accused him of showing disrespect to party founder and former military ruler Ziaur Rahman.
		BNP MPs had attacked Chowdhury for not visiting the grave of Ziaur Rahman, who ruled Bangladesh for seven years after seizing power in 1975, on his death anniversary on May 30 last.
		Bangladesh's two main political groups - the BNP led by Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and the opposition Awami League led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina - are sharply divided on who first proclaimed independence when the country broke away from Pakistan in 1971.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/jun/21bang1.htm (406 words)

	Bangladesh Eight Jatiya Sangsad: A Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bangladesh is a very poor country but recently foreign investment has significantly increased in the gas and electrical power generation.
		Part V of Chapter 1 of the constitution of Bangladesh says that there shall be a parliament/Jatiya Sangsad (to be known as the House of Nations) in which subject to the provisions of this constitution shall be vested the legislative powers of the republic.
		The opposition party boycotted the session on the very opening day protesting against the switching off the microphone of the leader of opposition party and against the appointment of Major (retd) Khairuzzaman an accused in the jail killing case to the foreign ministry.
	www.saag.org /papers8/paper707.html (1327 words)

	Bangladesh - Global Voices
		Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world.
		Bangladesh is ethnically homogenous, with Bengalis comprising 98% of the population.
		Bangladesh face the challenge to negate the prejudices against it by the media by portraying the right image of Bangladesh and stride forward towards self sufficiency in cooperation with other countries of the world.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /wiki/index.php/Bangladesh (460 words)

	Asia: Country Report
		The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, intensified its campaign to oust the current government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, frequently calling countrywide strikes during which party workers ensured that all commercial activity ground to a halt.
		The opposition BNP has boycotted state television for the last year and a half: its leaders have refused to be interviewed on state television, and party activists have in the past forcibly blocked BTV cameramen from covering certain political events.
		BNP leaders stated that their group was not responsible for the violence, and claimed that a separate armed group had attacked them from a nearby alley, opening fire and throwing Molotov cocktails.
	www.cpj.org /attacks99/asia99/Bangladesh.html (1691 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		Bangladesh is a young country whose transition to democracy has been limited by strong tensions between the main political parties, resulting in regular parliamentary boycotts, street demonstrations, and hartals (general strikes).
		Through a four-party coalition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the Jamaat-e-Islami, Jatiya Party (Naziur) and Islami Oikya Jote captured a two-thirds majority of seats in Parliament during the October 2001 general election.
		The delegation's statement was well received by the Bangladesh public and media, and an agreement was brokered between the political parties to stop using hartals, to support domestic election monitoring efforts, to prevent the use of violence during the election period, to increase the number of women representatives in parliament, and to not boycott parliament.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/asia/bangladesh/bangladesh.asp (1102 words)

	Bangladesh Nationalist Party (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.pitt.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'''Bangladesh Nationalist Party''' (&2476;&2494;&2434;&2482;&2494;&2470;&2503;&2486; &2460;&2494;&2468;&2496;&2527;&2468;&2494;&2476;&2494;&2470;&2496; &2470;&2482; B&257;&331;l&257;de&347; J&257;t&299;yat&257;b&257;d&299; Dal, BNP) is the most popular political party of Bangladesh.
		The party's chair is Begum Khaleda Zia, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
		The BNP promotes a right-of-center social policy, and is often accused by its detractors of being too soft on the right-wing segments of the political establishment.
	bangladesh-nationalist-party.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (233 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Asia and the Pacific - BANGLADESH
		BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in October.
		The former ruling party, the Awami League, alleged that the elections were rigged and boycotted Parliament.
		They were allegedly attacked by BNP supporters because of their perceived support for the Awami League.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/asa/bangladesh!Open (751 words)

	Politics News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BNP secretary general and LGRD and Cooperatives minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman, Law Minister Moudud Ahmed, Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Khandaker Mosarrof Hossain, MPs and high officials joined the munajat.
		The Leader of the Opposition told the new Swedish Ambassador in Bangladesh F Dritt Hagstron when the latter called on her at her Sudha Sadan residence at Dhanmondi in the city yesterday.
		He quoted Sheikh Hasina as saying that her party had even sent the names of five representatives to the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan to constitute a committee to be represented by Awami League and BNP for talks on the electoral reforms.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/may/31/31052006pl.htm (1190 words)

	Bangladesh (09/06)
		The AL blames the ruling party for several high-profile attacks on opposition leaders, and asserts that the ruling party is bent on eliminating Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League as a viable force.
		Bangladesh's judiciary is a civil court system based on the British model; the highest court of appeal is the appellate court of the Supreme Court.
		Relations between Bangladesh and the United States were further strengthened by the participation of Bangladesh troops in the 1991 Gulf war coalition, and alongside U.S. forces in numerous UN peacekeeping operations, including Haiti in 1994, as well as by the assistance of a U.S. naval task force after a disastrous March 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3452.htm (8722 words)

	Are We Repeating ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After becoming prime minister, she held the reins firmly when Bangladesh was ravaged by its worst cyclone on record on April 29, 1991, that killed over 138,000 people and left the economy in ruins.
		The daughter of a businessman, Iskander Majumder, in Feni district in south Bangladesh, Khaleda is the third of her parents' five children.
		BNP leaders and workers vowed at a rally to resist the elections unless senior civil servants who walked off the job joined the protests against Khaleda were sacked.
	www.cyberbangladesh.org /repeat.html (3602 words)

	BANGLADESH’S ANTI-INDIAN GUN RUNNING AND INSURGENT HAVENS PERSIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While anti-Indian activities in Bangladesh is a constant feature, it is curious that their intensity and ruling party patronage becomes pronounced whenever the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies are in power.
		* Local BNP leaders and party functionaries along with the local police were present at the Chittagong Port to oversee and facilitate the transfer of this large consignment of illicit arms consignment and its onward movement.
		Bangladesh’s future lies in active economic co-operation and economic integration with Indian's growing economic success and in the process move away from a “dysfunctional state” status as a recent Times magazine issue described it.
	www.saag.org /papers10/paper987.html (1310 words)

	The Protection of Bangladesh Minorities
		Bangladesh held their national election on Oct1st, 2001 and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Ms.
		The Aftermath of the Fundamentalist Victory in Bangladesh: An AL party worker killed while sleeping with wife and son….
		Since 1971, when Bangladesh was born as a secular democratic country of Islamic Pakistan, the minority population declined from roughly 20 per cent down to 12 per cent, due to discriminationary treatment and persecution at the hands of the Islamic extremists.
	hrcbm.150m.com /article/ranjan_article.html (826 words)

	BANGLADESH, Landmine Monitor Report 2000
		Bangladesh voted for the pro-ban treaty UNGA resolution in December 1999, as it had in 1997 and 1998.
		Bangladesh has not signed the Amended Protocol II (Landmines) of the Convention on Conventional Weapons, though it attended the First Annual Conference for States Parties to Protocol II in December 1999.
		Bangladesh is a member of the Conference on Disarmament, but has not been a strong proponent or opponent of mine negotiations in that forum.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2000/bangladesh.html (1763 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Bangladesh
		Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries, with its people crammed into a delta of rivers that empties into the Bay of Bengal.
		Bangladesh spent 15 years under military rule and, although democracy was restored in 1990, the political scene remains volatile.
		Bangladesh Television is the sole terrestrial TV channel, although private satellite stations have established a presence.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/country_profiles/1160598.stm (824 words)

	Bangladesh: the Democratic Election of 2001 History \| hbh_06_package.xml
		Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan at the end of 1972 and has been struggling with its democratic processes since that time.
		The 2001 electoral competition was between leaders of the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Sheikh Hasina, who had been prime minister from 1996 to 2001, and Begum Khaleda Zia, prime minister from 1991 until 1996.
		They announced that Zia's party had won 199 of the 300 parliamentary seats open (Bangladesh's Parliament actually has 330 seats, but 30 of those seats are set aside for female delegates chosen indirectly by local election commissions) leaving the Awami League with only 62.
	www.bookrags.com /history/bangladesh-the-democratic-election--hbh-06 (480 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		In the election Four Party alliance led by Begum Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) achieved a landslide victory.
		In August 1975, the elected government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was long the most prominent leader in the nationalist movement was overthrown in the first of a series of military coups followed by military rule which plagued the country for the next fifteen years.
		In February 1991, the BNP won a parliamentary plurality of 140 seats in general elections and formed the government, with Begum Khaleda Zia becoming Prime Minister.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/Bangladesh/bangladesh_elections.cfm (676 words)

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