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...In the four decades since, Bangladeshi politics have been dominated by her and another family dynast: Khaleda Zia, widow of late president Ziaur Rahman, and part of the family behind the opposition Bangladesh...
...Her son, Tarique Rahman, serves as the BNP’s acting chairman from exile in London....
...“They made it a battlefield,” Mahmudur Rahman Manna, one of those who delivered the memorandum, told the Financial Times....
...Her son, Tarique Rahman, who is vice-chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist party, was sentenced to 10 years in prison....
...Abdur Rahman, the party’s joint general secretary, said Sunday’s ballot was more peaceful and orderly than previous polls....
...Ms Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, who is vice-chairman of the BNP, was sentenced for 10 years....
...Zia, who chairs the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is in jail on corruption charges that she says are false....
...The three were all accused of working for Ansarullah Bangla Team, and Bangladeshi authorities said Mr Rahman was the main plotter of the Roy murder....
...As Mr Rahman was speaking to the Financial Times on Monday, more than 100 club-wielding thugs loyal to the ruling Awami League attacked a convoy carrying his mother Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh Nationalist party...
...The government’s critics accused it of spending too much time on arresting and torturing members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party of Khaleda Zia — Ms Hasina’s bitter rival — and not enough...
...The corruption charges faced by Ms Zia, who has twice been prime minister, related to alleged embezzlement by herself and her now-exiled son Tarique Rahman during her last administration between 2001 and...
...Reaz Rahman, who works for Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist party, was wounded and his car set alight in an attack by six men in central Dhaka on Tuesday evening....
...Their second worry is that the mainstream dynastic politicians are so distracted by feuds dating back to independence from Pakistan in 1971 — Ms Zia’s husband Ziaur Rahman became military dictator after...
...“Zia’s strategy is to bring in the army,” says one leading Bangladeshi analyst who asks not to be named for fear of reprisals....
...instructions from her son, Tarique Rahman....
...The opposition BNP boycotted the election as unfair, and its leader Khaleda Zia accused Ms Hasina of killing democracy and establishing a one-party state....
...Konstantinos Maragakis, Brussels, Belgium In The Light of What We Know, by Zia Haider Rahman Dazzling in its sweep and depth, Rahman’s debut novel moves seamlessly from Kabul to Oxford to New York to Islamabad...
...Ms Zia, the 68-year-old widow of Gen Ziaur Rahman, who became president before being assassinated in a military coup in 1981, has been prime minister of Bangladesh three times in the past, but is now on...
...Those sentenced by the court in Chittagong included Motiur Rahman Nizami, the JI leader, and Lutfozzaman Babar, former BNP home minister under Ms Zia....
...The government dismissed Ms Zia’s proposal as backward and Syed Ashfraful Islam, the League’s general secretary, said Ms Zia was taking after army chief and former president Gen Ziaur Rahman, her late husband...
...“The five have been accused of inciting violence, exploding bombs and obstructing officers in keeping law and order,” Anisur Rahman, deputy police commissioner in Dhaka, told AFP....
...Emphasising the dynastic nature of south Asian politics, she spoke in her official residence under an enormous portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, her late father, the champion of independence and the first...
...Attorney-general, MK Rahman said on Sunday that the accused had “in a pre-planned manner annihilated the intellectuals of the country, so that the country could not proceed after independence”....
...Ms Hasina’s Awami League party and Ms Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist party “believe pretty much the same damn thing,” he says. “It’s the issue of two families....
...A court recently declared JI to be illegal under Bangladesh’s secular constitution, while police have seized and detained people regarded as critical of the government, including Adilur Rahman Khan, head...
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