Author: Aathif Anaas
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Khaleda Zia (1945–2025): Power, Polarisation, and the Price of Politics
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in ExclusiveBegum Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first woman Prime Minister and one of South Asia’s most consequential political leaders, has died aged over 80, bringing to a close a political era defined as much by democratic restoration as by deep and enduring division. For more than three decades, Khaleda Zia stood at the centre of Bangladesh’s political
