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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.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /biography/hasina.html   (577 words)

  
 Portal:Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangla: শেখ মুজিবর রহমান) (March 17, 1920 – August 15, 1975) was a Bengali political leader in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh.
Demanding increased civil rights and provincial autonomy, Rahman became a fierce opponent of the military rule of Ayub Khan and was tried in 1968 for allegedly conspiring with the Indian government, but not convicted.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portal:Bangladesh   (876 words)

  
 Webbangladesh.com Headline News from Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sheikh Hasina was allocated Prime Minister's official residence, while Sheikh Rehana was given an abandoned house in Dhanmondi at a token price of Taka 1001.
Sheikh Hasina was also entitled to six-member staff, free medical treatment in the country and abroad, a fleet of cars and telephone, etc. etc.
If Sheikh Hasina goes abroad even on a provate visit, she will have to be provided with SSF security with eight officers and a doctor and if she stays abroad for one month, more than Tk.
www.webbangladesh.com /Bdnews/bdnews-headline.htm   (2239 words)

  
 Contact Golam Akbar Chowdhury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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)

  
 Bangladesh Awami League :: Newsletter
The present Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana could escape the massacre as they were outside the country at that time.
Sheikh Hasina being the daughter of the Father of the Nation, people’s emotion, love and affection are also deeply associated with her.
In fact, the actions of the Alliance Government are aimed at eliminating Sheikh Hasina and the members of the family of Bangabandhu from the politics of the country.
www.albd.org /newsletter/2005/vol4_no1_2005.htm   (2087 words)

  
 Welcome to www.kuwait-info.com
A Bangladeshi woman holds a photo of the leader of the main opposition party Awami League (AL) Sheikh Hasina Wajed during a rally on the outskirts of Dhaka on Sunday.
Addressing the rally, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, leader of the Awami League, the main opposition party, said the government had "lost its mandate to govern the people" and demanded new elections under a reformed election system.
He rejected Hasina`s charge that police had resorted to mass arrests to foil the march.
www.kuwait-info.com /newsnew/NewsDetails1.asp?id=65482&dt=2/6/2006&ntype=   (586 words)

  
 Bangladesh - Begum Khaleda Zia - BNP - Worldpress.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Begum Khaleda Zia, Chairwoman of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), swept to power with a massive electoral landslide on Oct. 1, beating out her longtime rival, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the president of the Awami League and the first Bangladeshi leader to serve a full five-year term as prime minister.
Sheikh Hasina herself rejected the verdict and boycotted Zia’s swearing-in ceremony, despite insistence by international monitors that the elections had been free and fair.
Zia, the widow of an assassinated military dictator, and Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the nation’s first elected leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, have long jockeyed with each other for power in Bangladesh.
www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=156&dont=yes   (429 words)

  
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Sheikh Mujib, one of the founders of the Awami League, became the country's first prime minister in January 1972 ; he was assassinated in 1975 during a period of crisis
Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the leader of the Awami League, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Government.
The October 2001 elections gave the other parties a chance to try and oust Sheik Hasina from government and the BNB formed an aliance with two Islamic parties, The Jammat-e Islami and Islami Oika Jote.
members.lycos.co.uk /bangladesh/history.htm   (1092 words)

  
 About Bangladesh By nobel4tech.com
Sheikh Mujib, one of the founders of the Awami League, became the country's first prime minister in January 1972; he was assassinated in 1975 during a period of crisis.
A 1996 general election was widely boycotted and the legitimacy of the return of the Zia government was suspect.
On 30 March Zia stood down under pressure and elections, generally seen as free and fair, were won by Sheikh Hasina Wazed of the Awami League.
www.nobel4tech.com /history.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Hasina enjoying the perks without discharging obligations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sheikh Hasina Wazed enjoys all the perks and privileges as the country's opposition leader while at the same time she is not discharging her parliamentary obligations.
At home and even in Paris in her current European jaunt she kept on saying that Bangladesh is reeling under misrule with corruption and lawlessness and asking for a midterm election or the government's resignation.
Sk Hasina, whose megalomania is public knowledge, still has a language which is as strident, denunciatory and gross as it always has been.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/4/1844/printer   (474 words)

  
 IASL Newsletter 1997: Selected Articles
But the recommendations of the Commission could not be implemented as the government of Sheikh Mujib was overthrown and he and his family members were brutally killed by a rebel group of army personnel in 1975.
After that, as Sheikh Mujib was considered abominable and his policy was treated as despicable to all the governments none showed any interest to the Qudrat-e-Khuda Commission report.
After 21 years, Bangladesh Awamy League, the political party of Sheikh Mujib, has come back to power under the leadership of his daughter Sheikh Hasina Wazed, who in the meantime has declared, in many public meetings, to complete the half-done works of her deceased father.
www.iasl-slo.org /newsletter97.html   (1673 words)

  
 Politics news
In 1990 the military regime was forced to step down in the face of mass movement led by Sheikh Hasina, the citation said and added that Sheikh Hasina was elected in the general election of 1996 held under a neutral caretaker administration system and became prime minister of Bangladesh.
Lauding her role as statesman, the letter of citation said a sagacious and farsighted statesman Sheikh Hasina as prime minister of Bangladesh signed 30-year Ganges Water Sharing Treaty with neighboring India to end a hitherto intractable irritant that vitiated the relations between the two countries for over three decades.
It added that Sheikh Hasina resolved the over two decade-old problem of tribal insurgency in the southeastern part of Bangladesh by signing the Peace Treaty with inhabitants of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, who were waging insurgency operations in the region since the birth of Bangladesh.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/jun/28/28062005pl.htm#A8   (2586 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It appears the basic purpose of his article is to criticize PM Begum Khaleda Zia and praise leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina Wazed.
It is complicated by Sheikh Hasina Wazed through the faulty CHT accord.
He should have advised Sheikh Hasina Wazed to retire from poli­tics (at the age of 57) as per her earlier commitment and to stop calling hartals as per her earlier promise.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2005/06/23/ltte.htm   (1414 words)

  
 Welcome to Bangladesh Awami League
Sheikh Hasina shocked at deaths of Joypurhat, Mumbai explosions
The strike was called in protest against arrests of several hundred leaders and workers and police action on them during their sit-in demonstration in front of the Prime Minister's office in the capital on April 19.
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday assured visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso that the development activities initiated by the present government would not be stopped if her party comes to power.
www.albd.org   (410 words)

  
 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Leader of the opposition Awami League, daughter of the fa­ther of the nation, holder of about a dozen of doctorates and ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed is repeatedly asking Begum Khaleda Zia, the present Prime Minister of Bangladesh, to resign immediately and call a mid-term general election.
But our point is that during the regime of Sheikh Hasina Wazed the condition of the country was no better than now.
But Sheikh Hasina Wazed did not call an early election even after promising to do the same during her stay in holy Medina.
www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2003/10/22/ltte.htm   (1048 words)

  
 meet bangla
Opposition parties and activist groups campaigned against the election, and on 30 March Zia stood down and a caretaker government under Muhammad Habibur Rahman was appointed.
Elections, generally seen as free and fair, were held in June and a coalition government headed by Sheikh Hasina Wazed of the Awami League was voted in.
In mid-1988 the country was hit by devastating floods - 50 of the country's 64 districts were flooded, 755 people died and nearly a million were made homeless.
bemfbd.tripod.com /cgi-bin/Meet_Bangladesh.htm   (1533 words)

  
 The Schwartz Report
The two leading parties are led by women: the B.N.P. by the current prime minister, Khaleda Zia, widow of the party's murdered founder; the Awami League by Zia's predecessor as prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, herself the daughter of the assassinated founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Zia and Sheikh Hasina, as she is known, have a legendary antipathy toward each other.
When Sheikh Hasina very narrowly escaped assassination last August, B.N.P. activists all but accused her of staging the attack in order to acquire political advantage.
www.schwartzreport.net /showarticle.php?id=193   (3610 words)

  
 Bangladesh - Country Profile
The first President was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the Awami League, who had spent nine months in a Pakistani jail.
He was elected in 1973, and then executed along with many of his family in a coup in 1975.
The Awami League was voted back into power, after 21 years in opposition, and Sheikh Hasina Wazed became prime minister.
www.wvi.org /wvi/country_profile/profiles/bangladesh.htm   (1187 words)

  
 The Bangladesh Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bikalpa candidate Major(retd) M A Mannan met with the Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina Wazed and sought her support in winning the Dhaka-10 by-poll which became necessary as he resigned from the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The Sheikh asked them to pull down their party flags and merge themselves with the AL to implement their programme.
Mannan’s overture is bound to weaken their claim to be alternative stream when they seek support of one of the components of the mainstream against which it emerged.
www.bangladeshjournal.com /index.php?ID=1267   (556 words)

  
 Army wanted to strike Bangla terror camps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The ISI was not as active and the camps were mostly of terrorists who operated in India and moved to Bangladesh to seek refuge.
The Centre hesitated because Sheikh Hasina Wazed had just come to power in Bangladesh and a strike, it was felt, would weaken her position, and therefore, be politically “counter-productive”.
But the government felt that security forces in Bangladesh were not entirely with Sheikh Hasina.
www.hvk.org /articles/1202/94.html   (311 words)

  
 Editorial  The Telegraph - Weekly (Nepal)
The fact is that some three years back, to recall, media reports had it that Nepal’s Prime Minister Koirala was all set to visit Dhaka for signing this transport agreement..
The then B’desh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed too had expressed her desire that Dhaka be linked with Kathmandu through surface links.
If the snow clad scenic beauties of the mighty Himalayas will thrill the Bangladeshi tourists while being in Nepal, similarly, the Nepali tourists would enjoy to the hilt the vast expanse of the sea beach and the world famous Sundar Ban in Bangladesh during their stay there.
www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishweekly/telegraph/2004/mar/mar10/editorial.htm   (690 words)

  
 Bangladesh
Founding president Sheikh Mujibur was assassinated in 1975, as was the next president, Zia ur-Rahman.
A succession of prime ministers governed in the 1990s, including Khaleda Zia, wife of the assassinated president Zia ur-Rahman, and Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the daughter of Sheik Mujibur.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina completed her five-year term as prime minister in July 2000—the first leader to do so since the country gained independence from Pakistan in 1974.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107317.html   (854 words)

  
 Western Resistance: Bangladesh: Extreme Islamists and Politicians Create Climate of Violence and Fear
What may irk Jamaat-e-Islami is that its leader is a woman, Sheikh Hasina Wazed (though this comment about women is perhaps unfair - the PM of Bangladesh, head of the BNP is a woman also, Begum Khaleda Zia).
Hasina Wazed is the daughter of Mujibur Rahman who dominated Bangla politics from independence until 1981.
Hasina Wazed of the AL is scathing of the current government.
www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/000349.html   (2164 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Opposition leader killed in Bangladesh blast
The Thursday incident was the second deadly attack aimed at the AL in less than a year.
Last August, grenade attacks on AL president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed’s rally in Dhaka left more than 20 dead and hundreds injured.
Speaking to local media late last night, Hasina reportedly held the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led coalition responsible the attacks.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10672   (579 words)

  
 world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
However, while Sheikh Hasin'a personal victory cannot be marginalised in these times of great unrest in Bangladesh, it is the manner of the punishment which raises some questions about propriety.
It is obvious that the Hasina Government is playing to the gallery as far as Tasleema Nasreen is concerned; it is also equally obvious that the Government knows exactly where she is. Which brings us to a fundamental query: is the Hasina Government supportive of Nasreen or not?
If it is, which we are not sure of, then it is time that she is rehabiliated beside her ailing mother; if it is not, then the government should come public on that.
www.ganashakti.com /old/1998/981116/world.htm   (493 words)

  
 Editorial
Hasina tells in Mujibnagar Day discussion that her party will not sit for talks to hammer out a consensus for reforms, if BNP's rag-tag team coalition partners are kept in government side.
The fact of the matter is that the two most important politicians of Bangladesh at the moment, the regal, flamboyant and boisterous Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and the charismatic, hilarious Sheikh Hasina Wazed, are such poor losers.
Does Sheikh Hasina care to know how many people in Bangladesh at this moment think of her as trouble?
independent-bangladesh.com /news/apr/27/27042006ed.htm   (4583 words)

  
 South Asia Briefing Unit 1 - Bangladesh Politics
The dissident movement was led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, "the father of the nation," whose Awami League (AL) Party had won 167 seats out of 313 National Assembly seats on a platform of greater autonomy for the eastern province.
Currently, both the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the head of Bangladesh's opposition party Khaleda Zia, are women.
Leader of the Bangladesh Awami League and daughter of the "Father of the Nation" - Sheikh Mujibur Raman.
www.thp.org /sac/unit1/bpolitics.htm   (477 words)

  
 Editorial  The Telegraph - Weekly (Nepal)
The special class of the media, which has emerged of late, appears to be willingly tease the women folks suggesting the latter that they should not think any thing beyond the jobs related with the households.
In doing so the arrogant media forgets that Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Sirimao Bandaranaike, and Groham Brundtland were some of the brilliant women leaders who in their own right not only successfully steered their respective countries but also enhanced the image of their countries in the international forums.
Instances are in large numbers wherein one could find that women leaders have performed miracles which could not have been so successfully accomplished by their male counterparts.
www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishweekly/telegraph/2004/may/may12/editorial.htm   (638 words)

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