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  Virtual Bangladesh : Biography: Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina was born on September 28, 1947 at Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalgonj district which is also birth place of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 1968, Sheikh Hasina was married to an eminent scientist of Bangladesh Mr.
Sheikh Hasina actively participated in the mass upsurge of 1969 and at the time of the Liberation War of 1971, she was imprisoned by Pakistani occupation army along with her husband, mother, sister and brother.
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 Sheikh Hasina: Her Life And Work
Sheikh Hasina was elected the chief of Awami League on her return home and as the leader of Awami League, she waged a relentless war on military dictatorship and autocratic rule.
Sheikh Hasina’s next move was to secure the basic right of the people to cast their votes in general elections in accordance with their own judgment and personal wish.
Sheikh Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 in Tungipara, a remote village in south-western Bangladesh.
www.bangabandhu.org /hasina.htm   (4481 words)

  
 Sheikh Hasina Summary
Sheikh Hasina Wajid, the elder daughter of former Bangladesh president and prime minister Shiekh Mujibur Rahman (Mujib) (1921–1975), was born 28 September 1947 at the family's home in Tungipara, Gopalganj district.
Sheikh Hasina Wajed (Bangla: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ) (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001.
Sheikh Hasina was born in Tungipara in the Gopalganj district of erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) on September 28, 1947.
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 R-MWC - 2000 Pearl S. Buck Award Winner Sheikh Hasina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Family Background: Her Excellency Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was born on September 28, 1947, in Tungipara in the Gopalganj District of Bangladesh.
In 1975, while Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana were out of the country, the remaining members of her family were murdered in what proved to be a successful military coup against the Bangladesh government.
Hasina’s active role in party politics began in 1981, when she was elected president of the Bangladesh Awami League.
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 BANGLAPEDIA: Hasina, Sheikh
Sheikh Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 at her parental home at Tungipara in Gopalganj district.
Sheikh Hasina was a member of the Dhaka University unit of Chhatra League and secretary of the Rokeya Hall unit.
In the parliamentary elections of 1986, she was elected from 3 constituencies and became the leader of the opposition in the jatiya sangsad.
banglapedia.search.com.bd /HT/H_0081.htm   (659 words)

  
 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina -- Bangladesh
Despite calls for her resignation once Transparency International ranked Bangladesh as the most corrupt nation in the world, Hasina became the first democratically elected prime minister to complete her term.
Prior to her appointment, Hasina Wajed had served as the President of the Bangladeshi political party Awami League since 1981.
She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nationalist leader and first president of Bangladesh.
www.womenworldleaders.org /hasina.htm   (141 words)

  
 Tags - Sheikh Hasina - Instablogs Community
Faced with murder charge, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has decided to postpone her return home from the United States with her party claiming that she had done so on the advise of the interim government.
Sheikh Hasina and the alliance are not in favor of conducting the popular elections on the scheduled date on January 22 polls.
The Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has said that her party will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections in the country.
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 BANGLADESH’S UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OPPOSITION LEADER.
As Sheikh Hasina finished her speech and was going to get down from this makeshift stage, precisely at 1723 hours in the evening, a rain of grenades came hurtling down on the rally and more precisely at the spot on the ground where Opposition Leader would have alighted.
The use of back-up weapons teams on the expected exit route of Sheikh Hasina’s vehicle in case she was not killed in the first attempt is ominous.
Hardly a month earlier, Sheikh Hasina had informed the Bangladesh Government of death threats to her given on telephone, both in Dhaka and in Istanbul (Turkey) where she had gone for a function.
www.saag.org /papers11/paper1099.html   (1016 words)

  
 BANGLAPEDIA: Hasina, Sheikh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sheikh Hasina was born on 28 September 1947 at her parental home at Tungipara in Gopalganj district.
Sheikh Hasina was a member of the Dhaka University unit of Chhatra League and secretary of the Rokeya Hall unit.
In 1994, Sheikh Hasina organised her party to launch a movement with a view to persuading the government to introduce a constitutionally non-party caretaker government so as to ensure free and fair elections.
banglapedia.net /HT/H_0081.HTM   (600 words)

  
 Sheikh Hasina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheikh Hasina Wajed (Bangla: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ) (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001.
Sheikh Hasina was born in Tungipara in the Gopalganj district of erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) on September 28, 1947.
Sheikh Hasina and her sister, Sheikh Rehana were on a goodwill tour of West Germany at that time.
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 Bangladesh News Briefs | DesPardes.com
On Aug. 21, Sheikh Hasina was injured when an explosion killed 20 persons and injured 300 as she addressed 25,000 of her Awami League supporters at an opposition rally in downtown Dhaka.
Sheikh Hasina was reportedly being treated this week by medical specialists in Singapore for concussion and bleeding in the ears caused by the explosions.
Sheikh Hasina's father, Mujib-ur Rahman, who led Bangladesh to independence in 1971 and became its first prime minister, was named "father of the nation" in the country's 1972 constitution.
www.despardes.com /Bangladesh/2004/2.html   (1978 words)

  
 Sheikh Hasina stopped from returning to Bangladesh
Amid high drama, former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was, on Sunday, stopped by the British government from returning to her country in the wake of the ban imposed on her comeback by the military-backed interim authorities in Dhaka.
Hasina said the interim government in Bangladesh had foisted two charges of murder and extortions against her and she wanted to go back and challenge those charges in the court of law.
Hasina was holidaying in the US with her daughter but cut short her visit there and arrived in London on Thursday for a brief halt before proceeding to Dhaka.
im.rediff.com /news/2007/apr/23hasina.htm   (523 words)

  
 96-068 (Sheikh Hasina)
Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's slain independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was killed in a military coup in 1975.
Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the 10th prime minister of Bangladesh on June 23, 1996, 21 years after her party - the Awami League - was ousted by a military coup.
Sheikh Hasina's father and leader of the Awami League, Bangabandhu (Friend of Bangladesh) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was assassinated during that coup Aug. 15, 1975.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1996-97/96-068.html   (681 words)

  
 HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sheikh Hasina, just back from a week-long swing through southern Bangladesh, did not attend the rally which ended with the activists withdrawing from the area.
Sheikh Hasina has blasted the repeal of the portraits law as a "disgrace" to Sheikh Mujibur, who led Bangladesh to independence from Pakistan in 1971 and was assassinated four years later.
Sheikh Hasina has given no timetable for the resignations, but hinted the portrait bill might precipitate the move.
www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0203/26/eng1.htm   (507 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sheikh Hasina said, the area of appointing an chief adviser should not be limited to only in the judiciary rather it should be widened to more other areas.
Hasina alleged that the government was forcing the children to learn the false history of the Liberation War, as they want to destroy the achievement of the glorious event.
Hasina accused Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia of falsifying the facts from her birth dates to the Liberation War in an objective to complete the incomplete tasks of her master Yahya Khan of the then Pakistan.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2006/02/13/front.htm   (6560 words)

  
 Himal South Asian-August-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
According to sources, both agencies are convinced that the ISI is targeting Sheikh Hasina in close collaboration with the Mujib-killers, who have been on the run ever since a Dhaka court awarded death and life sentences to a number of them.
Sheikh Hasina, in her five-year tenure, has twice snubbed Pakistan’s military strongman Pervez Musharaff by refusing a dialogue with him.
So as the elections approach, most likely in October 2001, and Sheikh Hasina appears confident of returning to power, these elements in the Bangladesh army and the political opposition outside it, so the theory goes, are trying to use other means to deny her a second term.
www.himalmag.com /may2001/report.html   (4557 words)

  
 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) - About Bangladesh
Opposition Leader in Parliament Sheikh Hasina was born on 28 September, 1947 at Tungipara under Gopalgonj district.
Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana were the only survivors as they were in West Germany at that time.
Sheikh Hasina was conferred on Doctor of Law by the Boston University of the USA on 6 February 1997 and the Waseda University of Japan on 4 July 1997, Desikottama (Doctor of Liberature, honoris causa) by Visva-Bharati University of West Bengal, India on 28 January 1999.
www.bssnews.net /sheikh_hasina.php   (478 words)

  
 Contact Golam Akbar Chowdhury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On this day, Sheikh Hasina, the eldest daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, returned to her motherland from Delhi as the newly elected Chairperson of the Awami League.
I told him that the circumstances of that moment necessitated unanimous election of Sheikh Hasina to the party president's post disregarding her political inexperience but emphasising her special status as the daughter of Bangabandhu and as the symbol of party unity.
What could be more delightful to the common men of Bangladesh than Sheikh Hasina's return to Dhaka with the dignity and honour she deserved for her being the daughter of the nation's greatest martyr Bangabandhu.
www.bangladesh.net /gac/gachasina.html   (3798 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
Sheikh Hasina welcomed the new US food assistance as also an 84 million dollar programme to promote clean energy initiatives for Bangladesh, India and Nepal, with some 50 million dollars to fund trade initiatives.
Hasina's comment was a virtual disappointment to US and British petroleum companies and the world bank which have been urging the country to open up its largely untapped gas resources for export.
Sheikh Hasina "expressed a strong view that she would hope that they would be deported," Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger told reporters here.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000321/main2.htm   (1257 words)

  
 BanglaGallery - Welcome to Our World!
Sheikh Hasina was born in 1947 in the Gopalganj district, the eldest daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was President of the newly created People's Republic of Bangladesh when he was assassinated in 1975.
Sheikh Hasina studied at the University of Dhaka and was involved in student politics.
Sheikh Hasina escaped being killed along with her father, mother and three brothers in August 1975 as she was on a visit to West Germany at the time.
www.banglagallery.com /bangladesh/sh.php   (255 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 313   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, two surviving daughters of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, have expressed profound gratitude to the nation and millions of BBC listeners for recognising their father as the greatest Bengali ever.
Sheikh Hasina while addressing a Pahela Baishak gathering and Sheikh Rehana in her reaction to the UNB gratefully acknowledge the way people saluted Bangabandhu.
Sheikh Rehana, the younger daughter of Bangabandhu, in her reaction to the UNB on Wednesday from London extended her grateful thanks to the BBC listeners for honouring Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the greatest Bengali of all time.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/16/d40416012020.htm   (296 words)

  
 Sheikh Hasina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sheikh Hasina's courage and charisma have often invited attempts on her life.
Sheikh Hasina was also a special quest at the First Eleanor Roosevelt International Caucus of Women Political Leaders, organised by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in San Francisco in 1987.
Sheikh Hasina has dedicated her life to the difficult and often dangerous task of crusading for democracy In her country, rather than opting for a safe and comfortable life abroad.
www.sheikhhasina.ws /home/common/profile/political4.htm   (699 words)

  
 Magistrate halts arrest of Sheikh Hasina
Dhaka, Apr 23: A court has halted the arrest warrant against former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is stranded in London in the wake of the interim government's decision not to allow her back home.
The government said Hasina was largely responsible for months of violent street protests that eventually led to a state of emergency.
Police on April 11, hastily pressed murder charges against Sheikh Hasina, whose name was not in the case initially, along with 55 other politicians for murder of political activists during street agitation in Dhaka.
www.dailyindia.com /show/135777.php/Magistrate-halts-arrest-of-Sheikh-Hasina   (361 words)

  
 Former Bangladesh PM faces murder charges - Sheikh Hasina Wajed, a former Bangladesh prime minister and ...
The charges against Sheikh Hasina, currently in the United States on a private visit, stem from the deaths of four people in street violence last year in the capital Dhaka.
The 59-year-old Sheikh Hasina was prime minister from 1996 to 2001.
She is the first of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of the country who was killed in a coup in 1975.
www.politicalgateway.com /news/read/73765   (235 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
Sheikh Hasina with a voters’ list that she says is incorrect at the news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Hasina’s alliance also wants the election to be postponed until a new voter list is ready, and has threatened to disrupt the voting unless its demands are met.
Hasina, who is also the Awami league president, said the alliance would block transportation during a strike on Sunday and Monday in an effort to force electoral reforms.
www.telegraphindia.com /1070104/asp/foreign/story_7218335.asp   (521 words)

  
 Battle in Bangladesh seen personal - The Washington Times: World Briefings - October 02, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On Aug. 21, Sheikh Hasina was injured when an explosion killed 20 persons and injured 300 as she addressed 25,000 of her Awami League supporters at an opposition rally in downtown Dhaka.
Sheikh Hasina was reportedly being treated this week by medical specialists in Singapore for concussion and bleeding in the ears caused by the explosions.
Sheikh Hasina's father, Mujib-ur Rahman, who led Bangladesh to independence in 1971 and became its first prime minister, was named "father of the nation" in the country's 1972 constitution.
www.washtimes.com /world/20041001-102221-2317r.htm   (1794 words)

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