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Khaleda Zia

Khaleda Zia
খালেদা জিয়া
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Leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Assumed office
30 May 1984
Preceded by Abdus Sattar
9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
In office
10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006
President Shahabuddin Ahmed
Badruddoza Chowdhury
Iajuddin Ahmed
Preceded by Latifur Rahman (Acting)
Succeeded by Iajuddin Ahmed (Acting)
In office
20 March 1991 – 30 March 1996
President Shahabuddin Ahmed (Acting)
Preceded by Kazi Zafar Ahmed
Succeeded by Muhammad Habibur Rahman (Acting)
Leader of the Opposition
In office
29 December 2008 – 9 January 2014
Preceded by Sheikh Hasina
Succeeded by Rowshan Ershad
In office
23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001
Preceded by Sheikh Hasina
Succeeded by Sheikh Hasina
Personal details
Born Khaleda Majumder
(1945-08-15) 15 August 1945 (age 71)
Dinajpur, British Raj
(now Bangladesh)
Political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party (1979–present)
Other political
affiliations
Four Party Alliance (2001–2011)
18 Party Alliance (2011–present)
Spouse(s) Ziaur Rahman (1960–1981)
Children Tarique Rahman
Arafat Rahman
Mother Taiyyaba Majumder
Father Iskandar Majumder
Relatives Sayeed Iskander (brother)
Shamim Iskander (brother)
Khurshid Jahan (sister)
Shahrin Islam Tuhin (nephew)
Saiful Islam Duke (nephew)
Zaima Rahman (granddaughter)
Zahia Rahman (granddaughter)
Zafirah Rahman (granddaughter)

Begum Khaleda Zia (IPA: kʰaled̪a dʒia; née Majumder, born 15 August 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006. When she took office in 1991, she was the first woman in the country's history and second in the Muslim world (after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1988–1990) to head a democratic government as prime minister. Zia was the First Lady of Bangladesh during the presidency of her husband Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) which was founded by Rahman in the late 1970s.

After a military coup in 1982, led by Army Chief General H M Ershad, Zia helped lead the continuing movement for democracy until the fall of military dictator Ershad in 1990. Khaleda became prime minister following the victory of the BNP in the 1991 general election. She also served briefly in the short-lived government in 1996, when other parties had boycotted the first election. In the next round of general elections of 1996, the Awami League came to power. Her party came to power again in 2001. She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001.

In its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World, Forbes magazine ranked Zia at number 14 in 2004, number 29 in 2005, and number 33 in 2006.


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