ByAPDwriterEaswaranRutnamDHAKA,February8(APD)--FormerBangladeshPrimeMinisterKhaledaZiahasbeenjailedforfiveyearsaftershewasfoundguiltyintheZiaOrphanageTrustcorru
TwowarrantsofarrestwereissuedintwoseparatecasesagainstBangladeshiformerPrimeMinisterKhaledaZiaasshefailedtoappearforhearingsonThursday.JudgeAkhteruzzamanoftheSp
A High Court Division Bench in Bangladesh has awarded former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's eldest son Tarique Rahman a sentence of seven years in jail after scrapping a lower court order that had acquitted him in the money laundering case.
The struggle between the two Begums (a reference to the nation's two women political leaders) for the mastery of Bangladesh becomes ever so sharper with the Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina according its approval to the filing of sedition charges against the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, Begum Khaleda.
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has urged the government to stop extra-judicial killing and abduction immediately.
The Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police Monday night arrested a top leader of the country's main opposition party.Vice-Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, also a former foreign secretary, was arrested shortly after he came out of the residence of ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia who virtually remained confined to her house since the opposition alliance launched "March for Democracy" program on Dec. 24.
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