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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.
Bottom left: Khaleda Zia, the first female prime minister of Bangladesh, became prime minister on 27 February 1991, 15 February 1996, and 1 October 2001. Bottom right: Sheikh Hasina, the longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh, became prime minister on 12 June 1996, 29 December 2008, 5 January 2014, 30 December 2018, 7 January 2024.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and on 20 March Khaleda Zia was sworn in for her first term as Prime Minister .
Bangladesh's first female leader Khaleda Zia was freed from house arrest on Tuesday, a day after her nemesis Sheikh Hasina quit as premier and fled, one more twist to the decades-old saga of the ...
Prime Minister of Pakistan: 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990 18 October 1993 – 5 November 1996 Khaleda Zia Bangladesh: Prime Minister of Bangladesh: 20 March 1991 – 30 March 1996 10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006 Tansu Çiller Turkey: Prime Minister of Turkey: 25 June 1993 – 6 March 1996 Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh: Prime Minister of ...
The modern office of the prime minister was established following the declaration of independence of East Pakistan with the Provisional Government of Bangladesh on 17 April 1971, of which Tajuddin Ahmad became the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
It was reverted to democratic parliamentary system in 1991 when Khaleda Zia became the first female prime minister of Bangladesh through parliamentary election. The president is the head of state, a largely ceremonial post elected by the parliament. [1]
(first time) Benazir Bhutto Pakistan: Prime Minister of Pakistan: 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990 18 October 1993 – 5 November 1996 Khaleda Zia Bangladesh: Prime Minister of Bangladesh: 20 March 1991 – 30 March 1996 10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006 Tansu Çiller Turkey: Prime Minister of Turkey: 25 June 1993 – 6 March 1996 Sheikh ...