President Ziaur Rahman's assassination led to a political upheaval in Bangladesh, shaping the rise of Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina.

DHAKA, Jan 26, 2025 (BSS) - BNP leaders at a memorial meeting today said Zia family was subjected to brutal torture during the previous Awami League government as deposed Sheikh Hasina did not even allow former premier Begum Khaleda Zia, her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman to get their basic rights to treatment when they were sick.

A court in Bangladesh acquitted BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia on Wednesday in a sabotage case filed in the southeastern Cumilla district 10 years ago.Additional District and Se

Alam, who played a key role in the uprising that toppled Hasina’s government and led to her exile on 5 August last year, added that only Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, and other “pro-Bangladesh” groups would continue their political activities in the country.

The Awami League has been virtually out of the open political landscape since August 5, 2024, with most of its leaders and Hasina’s cabinet members either in jail on murder and other criminal charges or on the run at home and abroad.

Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League will be barred from participating in elections, according to a key adviser from Muham

Bangladesh’s media industry has seen some major shake-ups, with more than two dozen outlets shuffling leadership positions following the July mass uprising last year.

If the past indicates the future, there is considerable doubt about the stability of democracy in Bangladesh .

This is the second meeting between Soros and Yunus in three months after the duo met in New York last year in October - weeks after the Nobel laureate took charge following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime.

Shariful Islam Shehzad - the illegal migrant from Bangladesh accused of stabbing Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan last week in a home invasion - is a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, his father,

Earlier Bangladesh's interim government led by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus was seeking to renegotiate the 2017 deal with Adani and alleged that Adani withheld tax benefits.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir recently said the reform agenda undertaken by the interim government could take 10 years and an unelected government must not continue for a longer period.