Begum khaled a zia prime minister

Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991-1996, 2001-2006)

Begum Khaleda Zia^[a] (born August–September 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician, who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2006.^[3] She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and second female prime minister in the Muslim world, after Benazir Bhutto.

Begum khaled a zia prime minister

She is the widow of one of the former president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 1984, which was founded by her husband in 1978.^[4]

Born in a Muslim family in Jalpaiguri, Khaleda came to national attention as the First Lady of Bangladesh after her husband Rahman became the president in 1977.

After Rahman's assassination in 1981, Khaleda joined politics and came to lead the BNP. After a military coup in 1982, led by former army chief Lieutenant generalHussain Muhammad Ershad, She helped lead the movement for