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Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, a Pakistani religious party, chant slogans during a rally against NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistan army soldiers, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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A cycle rickshaw driver waits for customers near a poster of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during a 48-hour general strike called by the opposition to protest Sunday’s election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh).
Bangladesh leaders vie for power after marred elections
Dhaka, AP—For two decades, the “Battling Begums” have been at the forefront of this South Asian nation’s politics, vying for power and trading insults in a poisonous rivalry. Now the longstanding enmity between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and...Caption:
A Bangladeshi voter gets help from a policeman and an usher in finding her polling booth at a voting station in Dhaka on January 5, 2014. Bangladesh voted on January 5 in a violence-plagued election that will end in certain victory for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after the opposition boycotted the “farcical” contest (AFP PHOTO / Roberto SCHMIDT)
At least 11 killed in Bangladesh election violence
Dhaka, Associated Press—Police in Bangladesh fired at protesters and opposition activists torched more than 100 polling stations Sunday during a national election boycotted by the opposition and described as flawed by the international community. At least 11 people...Caption:
Bangladeshi police stand guard in front of the house of main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia in Dhaka on December 26, 2013. Bangladesh’s opposition accused authorities of placing their leader under virtual house arrest on December 26 as tens of thousands of troops were deployed across the country ahead of elections next month. (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman)
Bangladesh deploys army ahead of elections
Bangladesh, AP—Authorities in Bangladesh began deploying military soldiers on Thursday to help civil administrators hold national elections on January 5 which the opposition is boycotting. The main opposition party and the allies joining its boycott insist Prime...Caption:
Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah gestures as he talks from a police van after a war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment in Dhaka, February 5, 2013.