Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament and freed jailed opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country.

With the Bangladesh parliament dissolved ... Here’s a look at Ms. Hasina’s arch-rival Khaleda Zia and her political legacy. After the assassination of her husband and former military president ...

"The decision to dissolve the parliament was taken following the ... Meanwhile, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the arch-rival of Hasina, has been released from the jail. Zia, the former premier ...

"The president has dissolved parliament." Furthermore, the Bangladesh President has also freed Hasina's arch-rival, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, a former prime ...

Bangladesh has released Begum Khaleda Zia, the chair of the main opposition ... Zia’s release from house arrest and dissolved parliament after calls from the student-led national movement.

Begum Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister who had feuded with Hasina for decades, had been freed from house arrest. Student protesters had threatened more demonstrations if parliament was not ...

Tens of thousands of students and youths from a leading Bangladeshi political party have rallied in the capital, Dhaka, ...

However, her second term lasted only one month. Shairul Kabir Khan said: “Khaleda Zia and the BNP won the general election in 1991, and she became the prime minister in the Fifth Parliament. Under her ...

Both Hasina and Khaleda Zia were jailing on charges of corruption ... President Mohammed Shahabuddin has officially dissolved the 12th Parliament formed after the January 7 election where Hasina ...

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday exchanged Eid greetings with the party's standing committee members as they met her at her Feroza residence in Gulshan in the late evening.

Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Monday that an interim government would be formed after dissolving the parliament as he ordered the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia ...

Although two women — Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia — served as prime ministers ... Of them, 17 are members of the current 11th parliament. Of the remaining three, one was a member of 10th ...