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  Ziaur Rahman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ziaur Rahman was born on 19 January 1936 at Bagbari in Bogra district in the province of Bengal, and what is now North-West Bangladesh.
Zia was buried at Chandrima Uddan in Sher-e-Banglanagar, Dhaka.
Bangladesh's former president Ziaur Rahman, the brain behind the SAARC grouping, was honoured posthumously with the grouping's award during the Dhaka summit in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ziaur_Rahman   (2253 words)

  
 Ziaur Rahman - A Legandary Islamic Hero of Bangladesh
Shaheed Ziaur Rahman is seen with his wife Begum Khaleda Zia who had to come to politics after the shocking assassination of her husband, the most beloved statesman of Bangladesh.
Ziaur Rahman was born on l9 January 1936 at Bagbari in Bogra.
Ziaur Rahman and his troops were in the forefront of the War of Independence.
www.islam-bd.org /zia/zia_home.html   (2022 words)

  
 Virtual Bangladesh : Biography: Ziaur Rahman
Ziaur Rahman was born at Bogra in 1936.
In October 1970, Major Ziaur Rahman was transferred to the newly raised Eighteen East Bengal Regiment at Chittagong.
Major General Ziaur Rahman was sworn as The President of Bangladesh on April 21st, 1977.
www.virtualbangladesh.com /biography/zia.html   (427 words)

  
 Kalurghat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kalurghat is also the location of the radio transmitter where Major Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
Using a makeshift radio transmitter located in Kalurghat, first M A Hannan on 26 March 1971, and later on 27 March Ziaur Rahman, an army major then, and President of Bangladesh much later, declared the Independence of Bangladesh, on behalf of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Major Ziaur Rahman’s opening words in Bangla, "Ami Major Zia Bolchi", that is, “I am Major Zia speaking”, were picked up by news agencies, and were given wide publicity across the globe.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalurghat   (463 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ziaur Rahman
Ziaur Rahman was born on 19 January 1936 at Bagbari in Bogra district in North-West Bangladesh.
After returning back in 1970, Ziaur Rahman was promoted to the rank of Major and was transferred to the 8th East Bengal Regiment at Chittagong, as the second in command.
Bangladesh's former president Ziaur Rahman, the brain behind the SAARC grouping, was honoured posthumously with the grouping's first award during the Dhaka summit.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ziaur_Rahman   (1692 words)

  
 Khaleda Zia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She is the widow of assassinated president Ziaur Rahman, and leads his old party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Until the assassination of Khaleda Zia's husband, President Ziaur Rahman in an abortive military coup in Chittagong on 30 May 1981, Khaleda Zia had taken little interest in either politics or public life.
After the 1981 assassination of President Ziaur Rahman, Vice-President Justice Abdus Sattar took over as the acting President and also as Chairman of the BNP.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Begum_Khaleda_Zia   (590 words)

  
 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) - About Bangladesh
Valiant freedom fighter Ziaur Rahman was brought to the centre stage of Bangladesh national life after the political changeover of 1975 by the masses as well as the soldiers in an unprecedented popular upsurge.
Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman was sworn in as the President of Bangladesh on 21 April 1977.
President Ziaur Rahman boosted the image of Bangladesh by successfully pursuing a non-aligned foreign policy without getting involved with the power-play of the two super powers and their respective camps in global politics.
www.bssnews.net /life_sketch_ziaur_rahman.php   (1584 words)

  
 Late President Ziaur Rahman (First Elected in Bangladesh who diclared the independence of her.)
General Ziaur Rahman is a symbol of unity, honesty, sincerity and patroitic zeal.
He held general election on the basis of adult franchise in February 1979, and won a landslid victory and immediately after the general election, he withdrew emergency and Martial law from the country and set the process of restoring democratisation in motion.
Ziaur Rahman became the President of Bangladesh in 1977 and continued as such till his assassination.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/2999/zia.html   (833 words)

  
 Dear Mukto
Ziaur Rahman admitted in different ways that he had declared independence "on behalf of our great leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 27th March, 1971, from Kalurghat Biplobi Betar Kendra" and acknowledged Bangabandhu as Father of the Nation in his article published in the weekly periodical Bichitra of 26th March, 1974.
Major Ziaur Rahman was appointed a Sector Commander under the said government and later on a Brigade Commander.
Ziaur Rahman’s declaration was a surrogate act on behalf of Bangabaundhu.
humanists.net /avijit/26th_march/declaration_of_independence.htm   (2153 words)

  
 rediff.com: Bangladesh president resigns
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.
Rahman was assassinated in a military coup in 1982.
While BNP says Ziaur Rahman, then a major in the Pakistani army, declared independence on March 26, 1971, the Awami League says Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Sheikh Hasina, declared independence.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/jun/21bang1.htm   (406 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Bangladesh president resigns
They are unhappy that he failed to pay his respects at the grave of former President Ziaur Rahman on the anniversary of his assassination last month.
Ziaur Rahman, who is revered as the founder of the BNP and was Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's husband, was killed in an abortive army coup in 1981.
BNP leaders were angered by Dr Chowdhury's absence at Ziaur Rahman's grave, and by his failure in a message on the anniversary to say that the BNP's founder had declared national independence.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2057241.stm   (579 words)

  
 CONFERENCE ON COMMITTEE SYSTEMS PANEL 7 COLLOQUY
Rahman argued that it was a historical truth that throughout the world, and not particularly in Bangladesh, women had shown little interest in politics.
Ziaur Rahman Khan, he had been very impressed by the Minister of Justice who was a lady and placed her points and arguments with much charm and dignity.
Ziaur Rahman's question, replied that women Members were no longer willing to remain there as jewels in the Parliament.
www.parliamentofbangladesh.org /IPS_Committee_Conference/ips-38_panel7colloquy.htm   (2608 words)

  
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of the nation and a failed leader, happily restored this institution to its pristine splendor in March of 1975, and so the seed of Islamic lunacy was re-sown.
Ziaur Rahman inserted Islamic code into the constitution and gave citizenship back to Golam Azam, the traitor and leader of the political party Jamat-E-Islam that helped the Pakistan Army carry out its genocide.
Ziaur Rahman was assassinated and another Lieutenant General, Hussain Muhammad Ershad seized power in a military coup.
www.faithfreedom.org /oped/SherKhan50907.htm   (952 words)

  
 h4p4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Zaiur Rahman as the Acief of army staff as he had a legitimate claim for the post.
Ziaur Rahman should not be appointed as an ordinary Brigade Commander or a PSO under Brig.
Ziaur Rahman as the Chief of Army Staff.
www.majordalim.com /h4p4.htm   (390 words)

  
 Zillur advices B. Chowdhury @ e-mela.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rahman, also the LGRD and Cooperatives Minister, in a statement, advised Chowdhury to "rewind the past and recall the ugly memories before giving any sermons".
Rahman said Ziaur Rahman killed thousands of innocent patriotic soldiers along with political leaders and workers.
Rahman said B Chowdhury shamelessly pronounced at the official media centre at Sheraton Hotel in the evening of February 15, 1996 that the "sixth parliamentary elections were held in a free and fair atmosphere and the majority of the population has joined the electoral process.''
www.e-mela.com /politics/BChow_ZillurRahman_in072399.html   (657 words)

  
 PRIME MINISTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Her entry into politics to lead the party, founded by Ziaur Rahman, automatically put her in the role to lead a nationwide mass movement for restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.
Ziaur Rahman founded BNP and introduced politics of moderation, accommodation, tolerance and liberalism to build national consensus on various issues to which BNP led by her remains committed.
She was married to Ziaur Rahman, then a Captain in Pakistan Army in August 1960.
www.pmo.gov.bd /pmlife.htm   (1314 words)

  
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Mujibur Rahman was brutally murdered along with 26 others, including his wife, three sons (one of them was just 10 years old), two daughters-in-law, brother, close relatives, political associates and security men in a pre-dawn attack on August 15, 1975.
Mujibur Rahman was assassinated three and a half years after he led East Pakistan to independence from West Pakistan through a bloody war of liberation, which was in effect a firm rejection of the "Two-Nation Theory" of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (this theory led to the Partition of India in 1947).
PAVEL RAHMAN / AP Shah Moazzem Hossain, leader of a faction of the Jatiya Party, and K.M. Obaidur Rahman, MP, and Nurul Islam Manzoor, both belonging to the BNP, who were arrested in connection with the murder on November 3, 1975 of four leaders of the liberation struggle.
www.hindu.com /fline/fl1524/15240040.htm   (2498 words)

  
 Ziaur Rahman Biography / Biography of Ziaur Rahman Main Biography
Bangladesh president Ziaur Rahman, popularly known as Zia (1936-1981), succeeded to a significant extent in bringing political and economic stability to the new nation following a period of great disruption.
Mansur Rahman, father of Ziaur Rahman, was a chemist working for the government of India stationed in Calcutta.
Ziaur Rahman was born there January 19, 1936.
www.bookrags.com /biography-ziaur-rahman   (235 words)

  
 - toledoblade.com -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ziaur Rahman sets aside some of the outdated computers Owens Community College is sending to Bangladesh.
Rahman, a database administrator at Owens who came here about four years ago to work on a master's degree in computer science.
Rahman, a database administrator at Owens, said it would cost almost the entire annual salary of a teacher to buy a computer in Bangladesh, a country in southern Asia that remains one of the world's poorest.
www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040105/NEWS08/101050106   (534 words)

  
 h4p3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ziaur Rahman should have been the Chief of staff being the senior most officers.
Ziaur Rahman for his historic declaration of the Independence.
Shafiullah became a trusted stooge of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to prove his loyalty he started giving more importance to the whims and wishes of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his government sacrificing the interest of the army.
www.majordalim.com /h4p3.htm   (190 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 519   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Late president Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh is the first recipient of the prestigious Saarc Award for his outstanding initiative for regional cooperation in South Asia.
Tarique Rahman, elder son of Ziaur Rahman, will receive the award on behalf of the family from Chairperson of the 12th Saarc Summit and Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
Ziaur Rahman in the early 1980s took the initiative to set in motion the process of regional cooperation aimed at promoting overall progress and economic development.
thedailystar.net /2005/11/12/d5111201096.htm   (328 words)

  
 Rahman Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Rahman coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
We encourage you to study the Rahman genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/rahman-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (469 words)

  
 Resource Information Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sheikh Mujibur (Mujib) Rahman was the leader of the independence movement that led to the establishment of the country of Bangladesh.
It was later incorporated in the constitution by assassinated president Ziaur Rahman.
The regime of General Ziaur (Zia) Rahman, founder and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, came to power in another coup in November 1975.
uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/Bangladesh.htm   (496 words)

  
 outlookindia.com | wired
BNP lawmakers attacked Chowdhury for not visiting the grave of Ziaur Rahman, who ruled Bangladesh between 1975 and 1980, on the party founder's 21st death anniversary last month and failing to mention in his official message on the occasion contribution by Rahman to Bangladesh's liberation war.
Chowdhury, a close aide of Ziaur Rahman, was in a room adjacent to the one in a circuit house in the southern port city of Chittagong on the night of May 30, 1982 (Ed Correct) when Begum Zia's husband was showered with a hail of bullets.
Mahi Chowdhury, who is also a BNP MP, said "my father did not disrespect Ziaur Rahman and he is stepping down due to his respect for democracy as well as to BNP parliamentary party's decision and as he was the founding secretary general of BNP...
www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=64789   (696 words)

  
 Politics News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
K M Obaidur Rahman recalled that following his resignation in the first week of November 1975 he himself was put under house arrest as Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf forced the then President Khondaker Moshtaque Ahmad to make Khaled Chief of the Army staff by arresting Ziaur Rahman.
He said Ziaur Rahman was the architect of unity at a critical juncture of national life.
Accusing late president Ziaur Rahman of distorting history, they also said the politics of Zia and BNP was based on perfidy.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/08/08112004pl.htm   (3211 words)

  
 Sirius Broadband Ltd. :: Sirius Family
Ziaur Rahman, co-founder of Sirius Broadband (BD) Limited, has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO since the Company's inception.
Rahman is also the President, international operations of Tigerit.com LLC, a software company based in Los-Angeles, CA.
Rahman served as the Managing Director of Spectra Solutions Limited, an IBM Business Partner distributor in Bangladesh.
www.siriusbroadband.com /family.php   (1776 words)

  
 Nation pays tributes to Shaheed Zia
The nation observed the 22nd anniversary of death of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman in a befitting manner yesterday recalling the glorious contributions of the late leader to the country’s War of Independence and reviving the multi-party democracy.
Professor Emajuddin Ahmed said Ziaur Rahman was such a national leader who had reached the people before the people reaching to him.
Realising the importance in economy, Ziaur Rahman had introduced the stock exchange and share market activities, which are important in the modern world, he said.
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/4/2022/printer   (1494 words)

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