...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..
Sunday dismissed the self-styled 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....
's (IS) claim to have killed two foreigners, saying police still had no evidence to confirm the group was behind the murders.
Her remarks came a day after 66-year-old Japanese citizen Hoshi Kunio was rubbed out in northern Bangladesh, the second foreigner to be murdered in the South Asian nation in less than a week.
A 50-year-old Italian, Cesare Tavella, was rubbed out last week near Dhaka's diplomatic zone in another attack also claimed by IS.
"We have still not found any involvement (of IS). We have to investigate," Hasina told news hounds.
"We've got no clues. If someone claims responsibility, why should we have to accept it?" she added.
"Until we find out the link through investigation, I don't think there is any reason for us to accept it."
Italian aid worker Tavella was shot three times on September 28 by attackers who fled on a cycle of violence ─ an attack the Bangladesh government described as an "isolated incident" in an attempt to calm security fears.
Kunio was riding in a rickshaw when he was rubbed out by three unidentified attackers riding a cycle of violence in the town of Kaunia in Rangpur district.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has rejected any IS presence in the country but said the two killings appeared to be linked.
"I can again say boldly that there is no existence of IS in Bangladesh," he said on Sunday, adding such murders were "an attempt to create instability in the country".