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STAT Bangladesh Pakistan HISTORY
Head of state > Term limit for head of state 5
Ranked 102nd. The same as Pakistan
5
Ranked 73th.
President Abdul Hamid Mamnoon Hussain
President > Profile <p>Abdul Hamid was elected unopposed as Bangladesh&#039;s president in April 2013, following the death in March of President Zillur Rahman after a long illness. </p> <p>Mr Hamid, speaker of parliament since 2009, was serving as acting president in the largely ceremonial post when MPs chose him to succeed Mr Rahman.</p> <p>The 69-year-old is a veteran of the governing Awami League and a long-standing aide to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. </p> <p>President Hamid is said to have good ties with opposition parties, and this could prove crucial in breaking a deadlock between the main parties over the next general election due by January 2014. </p> <p>The Bangladesh Nationalist Party party has threatened to boycott the polls if they are not held under a neutral caretaker government, a demand rejected by the government of Sheikh Hasina. </p> <p>Mamnoon Hussain was elected to the largely ceremonial role of president by parliament in July 2013.</p> <p>He succeeded Asif Ali Zardari, who stepped down at the end of his five-year term as the first democratically elected president to complete a full-term in Pakistan. He took over from Pervez Musharraf, who resigned under threat of impeachment.</p> <p>Mr Hussain is a textile businessman and a close ally of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. He has been a long-time member of the ruling PML-N party.</p>
President > Summary Mr Hamid was Speaker of parliament before becoming president Mamnoon Hussain is a textile businessman
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister > Profile <p>Sheikh Hasina was sworn in for a third term as prime minister in January 2014 after a deadly general election boycotted by the opposition amid an ongoing political crisis.</p> <p>Her Awami League party won a clear majority in the poll, but many seats were not contested by the opposition who had demanded that a neutral caretaker government oversee the vote. </p> <p>The international community called for a re-run of the election amid fears of more violence.</p> <p>The opposition, led by two-times former prime minister and arch enemy Khaleda Zia, called for a blockade of roads, rail and waterways to try to topple the government. Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party dismissed the new government as a farce just like the &quot;farcical elections&quot;.</p> <p>Rivalry</span> <p>Politics in Bangladesh has long been dominated by the bitter rivalry between the two women.</p><p>Sheikh Hasina was previously prime minister from 1996 to 2001, while Khaleda Zia was in power between 1991 and 1996 and again from 2001 to October 2006, when she handed over power to a caretaker administration ahead of elections.</p> <p>The hostility between the women stems in part from differences over who played a greater role in the country&#039;s independence struggle - Hasina&#039;s father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, or Khaleda&#039;s husband, General Ziaur Rahman.</p> <p>Khaleda and Hasina sank their differences when military ruler Hossain Mohammad Ershad was in power from 1982 to 1990, but their alliance ended with Ershad&#039;s departure and they have been uncompromising rivals ever since.</p> <p>The Muslim League conservative opposition party won parliamentary elections in May 2013, returning Nawaz Sharif to power for a third time.</p> <p>Mr Sharif, a wealthy industrialist from Punjab, first emerged in the 1980s as a protege of military ruler Zia ul-Haq, and went on to serve as elected prime minister in 1990-1993 and 1997-1999, alternating in office with the left-leaning Pakistan People&#039;s Party (PPP).</p> <p>Army chief Pervez Musharraf deposed him in a coup in 1999, and Mr Sharif spent the following eight years in Saudi exile.</p> <p>His victory in 2013 - again over the PPP - marked the first transition from one elected government to another in the country&#039;s history.</p> <p>He has set out an ambitious programme of public works, fighting corruption and ending US drone attacks on the Taliban and al-Qaeda. </p>
Prime Minister > Summary Sheikh Hasina gained a third term as premier in 2014 Mr Sharif faces numerous pressing challenges

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