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Hasina 7th top world women leader
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been selected as the 7th among 12 top world women leaders by the Time Magazine.
The top 12 women leaders are Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president of Argentina, Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, Julia Gillard, prime minister of Australia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, prime minister of Bangladesh, Johanna Sigurdardottir, prime minister of Iceland, Laura Chinchilla, president of Costa Rica, Tarja Halonen, president of Finland, Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
In its statement, the Time Magazine said Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the 63-year-old leader of the left-of-centre Awami League, has a history of surviving.
In 1975, assassins killed 17 members of her family - including her three brothers, mother and father -- former president Sheik Mujibur Rahman. Hasina, then 28, happened to be abroad at the time. She later survived a grenade attack that killed more than 20 people, dodging the bullets that sprayed her car as she fled.
Hasina was first elected prime minister in 1996. But in 2001,Transparency International named Bangladesh as the most corrupt country in the world, and Hasina was ousted in a landslide, the Time Magazine statement said.
It said that wasn't the end of her, though. In January 2009, the Awami League won 230 of 299 parliamentary seats, and the consummate survivor found herself Prime Minister - again.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been selected as the 7th among 12 top world women leaders by the Time Magazine.
The top 12 women leaders are Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president of Argentina, Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, Julia Gillard, prime minister of Australia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, prime minister of Bangladesh, Johanna Sigurdardottir, prime minister of Iceland, Laura Chinchilla, president of Costa Rica, Tarja Halonen, president of Finland, Dalia Grybauskaite, president of Lithuania, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
In its statement, the Time Magazine said Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the 63-year-old leader of the left-of-centre Awami League, has a history of surviving.
In 1975, assassins killed 17 members of her family - including her three brothers, mother and father -- former president Sheik Mujibur Rahman. Hasina, then 28, happened to be abroad at the time. She later survived a grenade attack that killed more than 20 people, dodging the bullets that sprayed her car as she fled.
Hasina was first elected prime minister in 1996. But in 2001,Transparency International named Bangladesh as the most corrupt country in the world, and Hasina was ousted in a landslide, the Time Magazine statement said.
It said that wasn't the end of her, though. In January 2009, the Awami League won 230 of 299 parliamentary seats, and the consummate survivor found herself Prime Minister - again.
