The Awami League lost its footing in the military-led regimes of Ziaur Rahman and later Hussain Muhammad Ershad. In 1981, Sheikh Hasina, Mujibur Rahman's exiled daughter, returned to Bangladesh ...

The anti-liberation forces, though politically and morally defeated, rose from the ashes like a virus left unchecked. Military regimes under General Ziaur Rahman and later General Hussain Muhammad ...

The inaugural Ananda Shobhajatra in 1989 was conceived as a subtle yet powerful act of cultural resistance against the then-military dictatorship of General Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Dhaka ...

WHEN EAST PAKISTAN rose up for its independence and became Bangladesh ... Hours after news of the NDP broke, the US ambassador to Bangladesh called on Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Bangladesh’s military ...

Pakistan has extended condolences on the sad demise of former President of Bangladesh and Chairman of Jatiya Party General Hussain Muhammad Ershad. In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr.

His successor Hussain Muhammad Ershad, another military officer, officially made Islam as the state religion with a change to the constitution. Activists have since demanded the removal of the ...

Quader’s elder brother, the founder of the Jatiya Party and former President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, too had to step down in 1990 following a students’ protest. The recent toppling of Sheikh ...

Her popularity rose throughout the 1980s and the uprising against the military dictatorship of General Hussain Muhammed Ershad ... the armed forces to appoint Muhammad Yunus as Bangladesh's ...

Former Bangladesh military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad died Sunday aged 89, after weeks in a Dhaka hospital, officials said. Ershad was also a prolific poet P Pulse News Agency International ...