{"id":75804,"date":"2025-12-30T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/khaleda-zia-first-female-bangladesh-prime-minister-dies-aged-80"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:13:00","slug":"khaleda-zia-first-female-bangladesh-prime-minister-dies-aged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75804","title":{"rendered":"Khaleda Zia, first female Bangladesh prime minister, dies aged 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zia\u2019s archrivalry with Sheikh Hasina defined the country\u2019s politics for a generation<\/p>\n<p>Former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with Sheikh Hasina defined the country\u2019s politics for a generation, has died, her political party said on Tuesday. She was 80.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BNP chairperson and former prime minister, the national leader Begum Khaleda Zia, passed away today at 6am, just after the Fajr (dawn) prayer,\u201d the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/khaleda-zia-first-female-bangladesh-prime-minister-dies-aged-80\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zia\u2019s archrivalry with Sheikh Hasina defined the country\u2019s politics for a generationFormer Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with Sheikh Hasina defined the country\u2019s politics for a generation, has died, her political party said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75804\/revisions\/75811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}