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Sheikh Hasina

Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, walks with Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, during the first day of the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha on May 29, 2012.

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About Sheikh Hasina

Sheikh Hasina Wazed (Bengali: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father (and first president) of Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina's party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections, thus assuring her the post of prime minister. Sheikh Hasina has once before held the office of PM, from 1996 to 2001.

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