Khaleda Zia, who was the country’s first female head of government, had been suffering from a prolonged illness
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia passed away at the age of 80 in a Dhaka hospital on Tuesday after battling prolonged health issues, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said in a statement.
She was the South Asian nation’s first female prime minister, serving as the head of the government from 1991 to 1996 and 2001 to 2006.
“I am deeply saddened and grief-stricken by her death,” Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh said. He added that Zia “represented an important chapter” in the…
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