Prime Minister Khaleda Zia began her second innings after winning the parliamentary polls in 2001. Her victory was marked by her strategic alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami-Jatiya party. Both BNP and Jamaat profi ted from the popular resentment against the West in the aftermath of September 11 attacks and secured a landslide victory over a moderate Awami League. However, in the last fi ve years, Zia rule has not only led to a sharp rise in corruption levels (Bangladesh stands as the most corrupt country in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index) but also turned it into a hub of Islamic militancy. Interestingly though the moderates (including the opposition leader Sheikh Hasina) have been the prime targets of those radicals.
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