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	Sheikh Hasina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
	nba.servegame.org /en/Sheikh_Hasina.htm (1919 words)

	Sheikh Hasina -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sheikh Hasina escaped her family’s fate as she and her sister were in (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany (West Germany) at that time.
		Sheikh Hasina Wajed is married to Dr. Wajed, a famous nuclear physicist.
		On August 21, 2004 Ms Wajed faced a major (A small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile) grenade attack while she was addressing a crowd in (The capital and largest city of Bangladesh) Dhaka.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/sheikh_hasina.htm (622 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News
		Sheikh Hasina earlier condemned the election as "rigged" and left open the threat of withdrawing her party's participation in parliament.
		According to Sheikh Hasina, the caretaker government process, which was brought in after the collapse of elections in 1996, was particularly culpable in her party's crushing defeat.
		Sheikh Hasina, the leader of the Awami League, alleged that the election was "rigged".
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/10/03/new01.html (1101 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Awami League of outgoing prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed complained that vote-rigging was rampant during Monday's election in the volatile and impoverished South Asian nation.
		Sheikh Hasina, a bitter rival of BNP leader Khaleda Zia, was said to have been stunned by the poll results, which came after a blood-stained campaign period that claimed more than 140 lives.
		Following her defeat to Sheikh Hasina in 1996, Zia launched a campaign of nationwide general strikes in a failed bid to unseat the government.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0110/05/eng2.htm (410 words)

	Sheikh Hasina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The daughter of one of Bangladesh's founding fathers, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she was active in student politics in the 1960s and was the go between her father and students and political leaders during her father’s imprisonment in the 1960s.
		Sheikh Hasina escaped her family’s fate as she and her sister were in Germany (West Germany) at that time.
		Sheikh Hasina received the UNESCO Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize for 1998 for her role in bringing peace by resolving the longstanding ethnic problem in the Chittagong Hill tracts region of Bangladesh and was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sheikh-Hasina.htm (727 words)

	India - News - Hasina Challenges Zia To Pull Her Down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hasina said Friday that she had offered Zia early elections and in return she gave us a deadline to step down by March 30.
		Hasina said all the governments since the changeover in August 1975 were ousted by the people or by undemocratic means.
		Hasina reminded her audience of the proverb that the "devil will not listen to the scripture." Hasina said Zia also acted like the devil.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/hasina.html (366 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to speak at a rally later Saturday and lead a march to her assassinated father's residence, now a museum.
		Her father, the nation's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed in a 1975 coup along with most of the family in that house.
		Sheikh Hasina has accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Islamist-allied government of resorting to fresh "torture, atrocities, harassment and repression" by arresting members of her party earlier in the week.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2002/08/25/wor03.html (189 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> South Asia -> US visit fruitful and successful: Hasina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed Sunday termed her visit to the United States as "fruitful and successful" and said it opened new vistas for cooperation between the two countries.
		Hasina denied she had discussed the export of natural gas, which the Clinton administration is reported to be pressing for.
		Hasina said she was "very happy" over the success of her talks with Clinton over Bangladesh's request for the extradition of the three convicted killers of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/10/22/22hasina.html (359 words)

	Clash of Personalities Spring 97
		Wajed is the president of the Awami League, a secular party that was at the forefront of the Bangladeshi liberation movement in 1971.
		Wajed is one of the two daughters who, travelling abroad at the time, had escaped the massacre.
		Wajed seems committed to stepping down at the end of her term because her Awami League has been the main proponent of this method of transfer of power.
	www.yale.edu /iforum/Spring1997/Bangladesh.htm (1044 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - World
		Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who is Sheikh Mujibur's daughter, said her supporters would stage a one-day hunger strike.
		Sheikh Hasina's Awami League had earlier said it would announce at the protest Sunday a programme of strikes against the government.
		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.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/03/25/wor02.html (455 words)

	BBC News \| South Asia \| Bangladesh PM promises early election
		Sheikh Hasina's party, the Awami League, won the elections in 1996 and her government would normally be expected to complete its five-year term in office.
		Now, however, Sheikh Hasina has made an unconditional promise and also followed it up with the assurance that the next general election would be held on a level playing field with a caretaker government presiding over the process.
		Although Sheikh Mujib, as he is popularly called, created a one-party state tolerating no dissent, he still commands enormous respect as the symbol of the struggle for independence from Pakistan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/214965.stm (482 words)

	Bangladesh's ex-premier gets bail in South Korean frigate deal case
		DHAKA, Aug 30 (AFP) - Bangladesh's main opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed appeared in a court Saturday and was granted bail in a graft case over the purchase of a South Korean naval frigate when she was prime minister.
		Sheikh Hasina accompanied by party leaders and hundreds of supporters appeared before Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge Matiur Rahman, who granted her bail for 100,000 takas (1,724 dollars).
		Sheikh Hasina and five other people, including former navy chief Nurul Islam, have been charged in the case and could each go to prison for up to five years if convicted.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bp/Qbangladesh-graft.RLqz_DaU.html (346 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		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)

	The bane of Bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She called for national unity and invited Sheikh Hasina for a meeting to express her sympathy at the blasts.
		In 1975, Sheikh Hasina's father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then president, was assassinated by disgruntled army officers along with 17 others, mostly family members.
		Sheikh Hasina and her sister, who were out of the country at the time, are the only surviving members of the family.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/08/23/cache/316065.html (671 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The explosions took place as Sheikh Hasina finished addressing the rally organised by her party Awami League to protest the recent bombings in the northeastern city of Sylhet, witnesses said.
		Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil said Sheikh Hasina was the target of the blasts but she was safe.
		Sheikh Hasina later told BBC that she was protected by her supporters, some of whom were killed.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040822/asp/foreign/story_3659236.asp (420 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Bangladesh
		After the military crackdown by the Pakistan army since the night of March 25, 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested and the political leaders dispersed.
		Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920 - August 15, 1975), born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, was a Bengali nationalist leader in East Pakistan and first Prime Minister and President of independent Bangladesh.
		Sheikh Hasina Wajed (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Bangladesh (4014 words)

	Assassination bid on Hasina; 14 killed
		Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed on Saturday escaped an assassination bid when a string of explosions rocked an opposition rally addressed by her here, killing at least 14 people and injuring about 300 others.
		The explosions took place as Sheikh Hasina finished addressing the rally organised by her party Awami League to protest recent bombings in northeastern shrine city of Sylhet, witnesses said.
		Sheikh Hasina later told BBC television that she was protected by her supporters, some of whom were killed.
	ushome.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/21awami.htm (438 words)

	Hasina's son also rises -DAWN - International; 18 January, 2005
		Sajib Wajed reportedly told them that he was "still undecided on formally joining politics", but assured them that he would be "with you during the election campaign".
		Sheikh Hasina has apparently opted for a road for her son that Begum Khaleda Zia had chosen for her son, Tarique _ to initiate him into active politics a couple of years ago.
		Sheikh Hasina's staff members neither allowed the BNP legislator to enter the house nor did they receive Mr Tarique's letter.
	www.dawn.com /2005/01/18/int12.htm (771 words)

	DAWN - Features; 06 November, 2004
		Apart from Malek, Sheikh Hasina appointed six of her relatives, particularly cousins and nephews, to different posts at the PMO, while recalling Mustafizur Rahman, one of her uncles, from LPR (leave preparatory to retirement) back into service and appointed him chief of army staff.
		Sheikh Hasina also has more than one relative at the senior positions of her Awami League, although a few of them, like Amir Hossain Amu and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, both former ministers of her cabinet, have genuine political background.
		As if all this were not enough, rumours have it that Hasina has long been persuading her still reluctant son, living in the United States at the moment, to enter politics.
	www.dawn.com /2004/11/06/fea.htm (898 words)

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		Party leaders, including the secretary general, Abdul Jalil, said the blasts targeted Sheikh Hasina, who has been leading a strong national campaign against the Government's "misrule and sponsoring of religious terrorists." Recently powerful bombs were unearthed from a venue of a meeting she was to address.
		Hasina as she sped away in a bullet-proof car.
		Hasina demanded the immediate resignation of the Khaleda Zia Government accusing it of patronising `terrorists, including religious fundamentalists'.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004082204740100.htm&date=2004/08/22/&prd=th& (329 words)

	GN Online: Awami MPs take oath, firm on boycott
		The ALPP entrusted Sheikh Hasina with the responsibility of choosing a deputy leader, chief whip and whips of the opposition in parliament.
		Hasina, who was elected from four seats, retained her home constituency, Gopalganj and vacated three other seats - two from southern Narail and one from Barguna district.
		Hasina, who was elected leader of the Awami League Parliamentary Party after the swearing-in, said joining parliament would depend on the attitude of the ruling party whom she blamed for continued torture and killing of Awami workers, raping of minority women and setting their property on fire.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=30303 (417 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> South Asia -> Dhaka High Court rejects contempt petitions against Hasina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dhaka: A two-judge bench of the Dhaka High Court Tuesday cautioned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed to be careful in making remarks about the country's judiciary, while rejecting three contempt petitions that were filed against her in August.
		All three petitions were filed after Hasina had criticized the country's judiciary in an interview with the Bengali service of the BBC at the end of July.
		In the interview, Hasina criticized the courts for granting bail to what she called "notorious" extremists and against lawyers for moving the courts to grant bail to them.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/10/25/rejects.html (450 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hasina, who is severely criticised by the Opposition for "surrendering to India", said her government was able to quickly restore peace after the recent clashes along the border, the worst in last 30 years claiming 16 Border Security Force personnel and three Bangladesh Rifles personnel.
		Hasina also hit out at Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief and former Premier Begum Khaleda Zia and her slain husband, former military ruler Zia-ur-Rehman, for "doing nothing to resolve the border issue with India when they were in power".
		Hasina said that after coming to power her government succeeded in reducing the un-demarcated border with India from 154 km to only six-and-a-half km.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/May01/03/NAT5.html (255 words)

	OnlineWomen: Bangladesh
		On June 1996, six years after the downfall of the military regime in 1990, Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the nation her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had founded twenty-five years ago.
		During the administration of Sheikh Hasina Wajed, there are two other women in her Cabinet, these are Motia Chowdhury (Minister of Agriculture) and Syeda Begum Sajeda Chowdhury (Minister of Environment and Forest).
		During the elections that year, her arch rival Sheikh Hasina Wajed's Awami League won most of the parliamentary seats paving the way for Wajed's ascendancy to the country's top post.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /bangla/bangleads.htm (746 words)

	Bangladesh: Trial of alleged killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On 15 August 1975 the then president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - father of the current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajed - and most of his family members including children were killed in their family home by a group of army officers during a coup.
		Some observers saw it as a major departure from a position declared by Sheikh Hasina Wajed who, when in opposition, had termed the SPA a "fl law" that should be repealed.
		Her lawyer argued that the weapons recovered had legally-obtained licenses, that she had not been involved in the assassination at all, and that she was being "held as a hostage by the government for securing the surrender of her husband" who is believed to have gone abroad.
	www.web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA130021997?open&of=ENG-391 (3184 words)

	The plan to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister by LTTE
		Hasina's party, the Awami League, had for the first time won the elections in the country since the Army coup of 1975.
		Once in power, Hasina reopened the Sheikh Mujib assassination files and Parliament repealed the Unconstitutional and Illegal Indemnity Ordinance of 1975, which was a martial law fiat created by Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed--who replaced Shiekh Mujib as President of Bangladesh--to protect the coup leaders.
		Sheikh Thaslim was caught in Khagracheri in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and Mahua was nabbed in Bangladesh's Khulna district.
	www.lankalibrary.com /pol/hasina.html (2828 words)

	BANGLADESH’S UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ON ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OPPOSITION LEADER. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		The damage to the bulletproof vehicle (SUV) of Sheikh Hasina as it whisked her away, indicates the employment of skilled marksmen.
	www.saag.org /papers11/paper1099.html (1016 words)

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