Word: zia
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...Hours later, a shaken Hasina accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's four-party coalition government, which includes two fundamentalist Islamic parties, of carrying out the attack in a bid to destroy the Awami League, traditionally the country's liberal, non-Islamist party. "How can a well-planned assassination attempt take place in the heart of Dhaka without the complicity and involvement of the government?" she told TIME. The government flatly denies the charge, calling it "ridiculous," but Hasina's followers are in no mood to believe this. Bangladesh's already polarized political culture?in which the ruling party...
...economy is on a surer footing, peace talks with India are under way, and every week seems to bring news of another group of terrorists being captured or killed. Indeed, not since the end of the 1980s, when democracy was restored to Pakistan after the dark years of General Zia ul-Haq's dictatorship, can I remember feeling so hopeful about Pakistan's future. Progress is taking place throughout society. Colleges and universities are opening at a record rate; and tens of thousands of primary school teachers are being hired. More than a dozen new private television channels and radio...
...once felt free to dress in Western clothing and shop alone now must wear a hijab, the traditional Muslim head scarf, when venturing outside. Many government offices require female employees to wear a veil at work. "Since the war, women feel they cannot go anywhere without it," says Jacqueline Zia, 30, who runs a hair salon in Baghdad. The perils of being out after dark have forced Zia to eliminate the salon's evening hours, which for years provided women with a social outing away from their husbands...
...rule is desirable in Pakistan. I have for most of my life despised the idea of dictatorship, of citizens being told what is right for them by an unelected, unaccountable body. I have vivid memories, even a decade and a half later, of the disastrous policies initiated by General Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s, policies of Islamization, of news broadcasts in Arabic, intimidation of journalists, oppression of women...
...four men were trafficking the uranium, which could fetch about $170,000 on the black market, or intending to make a dirty bomb themselves. "It is too early to say who was behind smuggling [the uranium] and what was the purpose," says a spokesman for Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. The village of Puiya is known as an area with al-Qaeda sympathies; police recently arrested 17 suspected militants there for distributing posters and tapes featuring Osama bin Laden. "That brings in the global terror angle, and we're too close to all this for comfort," says an Indian intelligence...