Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina Wajed (Bangla: ??? ?????? ???????) (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party in Bangladesh, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nationalist leader and first president of Bangladesh.

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Sheikh Hasina's political career started as a student activist in Dhaka University in 1960's. However, she was mostly under the shadow of her father until her family was killed in a coup d'?tat on August 15, 1975. She and her sister Sheikh Rehana, who were in West Germany at the time, were the only surviving members of the family. She later moved to the United Kingdom, and then was in self-exile in New Delhi, India before returning to Bangladesh, and Bangladeshi politics, on 17 May 1981.

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Portrait of Sheikh Ibrahim or Johann Ludwig Burckhardt 1817