Sheikh Hasina Wajed (born September 28, 1947) is the President of the BangladeshAwami League and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She was one of only two members of her family to survive a bloody 1975 coup, as she was studying abroad in West Germany with her sister at the time. Ms. Wajed is married to Dr. Wajed, a famous nuclear physicist.
Sheikh Hasina served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh between 1996 and 2001. However, her party won only 62 seats against the BNP (http://www.bnpbd.org/) led 4 party coalition (JAMAAT (http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/)- JP - IS) in the October 2001 Parliamentary Election. Currently she is the leader of the opposition. But under her leadership, the Awami League boycotted Parliament until June 2004, when it resumed participation on a limited basis.
On August 21, 2004 Ms Wajed faced a major grenade attack while she was addressing a crowd in Dhaka. 19 people were reported killed and hundreds injured in the attack [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3586384.stm)[2] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/bangladesh.blasts/index.html).
SheikhHasina was born on September 28, 1947 at Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalgonj district which is also birth place of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 1968, SheikhHasina was married to an eminent scientist of Bangladesh Mr.
SheikhHasina actively participated in the mass upsurge of 1969 and at the time of the Liberation War of 1971, she was imprisoned by Pakistani occupation army along with her husband, mother, sister and brother.
SheikhHasina Wajed (born September 28, 1947) is the President of the Bangladesh Awami League and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The daughter of the creator of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, she was active in student politics in the 1960s and was the go between her father and students and political leaders during her fatherÂ’s imprisonment in the 1960s.
SheikhHasina received the UNESCO Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize for 1998 for her role in bringing peace by resolving the longstanding ethnic problem in the Chittagong Hill tracts region of Bangladesh and was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
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