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...“The role of Awami League in Bangladesh is to ensure democracy, nationalism and secularism,” said Mohammad Shahabuddin from the Awami League....
...He first came to power in 1990 as the head of the political faction loyal to the former military ruler Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq....
...Salauddin Qader Chowdhury, a long time member of parliament for the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) and adviser to BNP leader Khaleda Zia, and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, secretary-general of Jamaat...
...Zia Ebrahimzadeh Washington, DC, US...
...He said Ms Zia “has to stop the violence and killing of innocent people”....
...Mr Abdullah’s running mate, Mohammad Mohaqiq, also reiterated on TV that the Abdullah camp would not accept the results, and hinted of further protests....
...He called his boss, who called Mohammad Sohel Rana, the building’s owner, now in jail. Mr Rana came to look, as did a government official and a civil engineer. “I showed them the cracks....
...Flanked by photographs of the party’s martyrs – the slain Ms Bhutto and of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the prime minister executed by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq in 1979 – he says: “This the first time in...
...General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 to 1988, was responsible for our blasphemy laws – which are alleged to be the reason behind Taseer’s assassination – alongside a series of “hudood...
...But when Bhutto was toppled in a 1977 military coup led by General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, the dictator, the young Taseer was arrested, kept in the dungeon of the magnificent Lahore fort and tortured....
...Pakistan is living with the legacy left in part by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, the US-backed dictator, who sponsored fundamentalists in the 1980s to shore up his regime....
...But others, like Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, the late military dictator who seized power in 1977, have sought to Islamise the state and society by creating sharia courts and imposing punishments for a wide...
...If I needed a reminder it comes with the government’s attack on Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Laureate and pioneer of microcredit....
...The Afghan president had intervened to release Mohammad Zia Salehi, one of his national security advisers, who was arrested in July over claims that he accepted a car in return for favours....
...Ezatullah Loman, a doctor at the Sardar Mohammad Khan Hospital in Kabul, said forty people were wounded in the blast, many of them seriously. “The number of dead could go higher,” he said....
...Public remembrance of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was banned under the dictatorship of Mohammad Zia ul-Haq....
...More than 30 years after Pakistan’s late military dictator General Zia ul Haq imposed strict Islamic laws on both women and mainstream liberals, his former home – a large colonial-style building in Rawalpindi...
...She inherited the leadership of the PPP after her father’s execution in 1979 under military ruler General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq • First voted in as prime minister in 1988, Bhutto was sacked by the then-president...
...The brutal murder 11 years ago of Mohammad Najibullah, the Soviet-installed and hated Afghan leader, whose bloodstained body was left hanging outside the presidential palace by the Taliban, did nothing for...
...The party, founded by her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – who was executed by the regime of General Zia-ul-Haq, an earlier US-backed military dictator – had bussed supporters in from all four provinces....
...Lawyers and political activists chanted “Go Musharraf, go” and “We want democracy”, as Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary’s vehicle slowly made its way to the city’s provincial high court building – a centre...
...Mrs Zia said abstaining parties would be to blame if the polls became “less acceptable” due to a boycott....
...Such projects led Mohammad Afzal Habib to resign in frustration from his job as an engineer with the ADB....
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