...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has urged the international community not to confuse Islam with terrorism.
She made this comment at the recently concluded Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) held in Milan on October 16-17.
"She made a strong statement on terrorism in ASEM summit and said it is the enemy of development," Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali quoted Hasina as saying at a press briefing at the ministry yesterday.
Hasina urged the global community not to identify
"The prime minister said terrorism can be curbed by a great deal if global arms trade can be controlled."
The soil of Bangladesh will not be allowed to use for terrorist activities against any country, Mahmood said quoting the prime minister.
Terrorism has become a burning issue in recent times after the emergence of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) that has created anarchy in Syria and Iraq.
The global leaders discussed the ISIL issue in the ASEM retreat where Hasina said Bangladesh opposes all forms of terrorism.
Bangladesh believes in territorial integrity, illusory sovereignty and independence of Iraq and Syria and wants to see a peaceful solution in those countries, he said.
