[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister
...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..
Wednesday said the international community had accepted the results of the 10th national election as an optimistic achievement.
"The international community has accepted the results of the last general elections in Bangladesh in a positive way against the ill motive of BNP-Jamaat, which was out to foil the poll through violence," she told parliament.
Replying to a question from Awami League politician AKM Rahmatullah during her scheduled question-answer session, Hasina said a good number of heads of states had hailed the government and sent messages to her upon becoming the primeminister for the third time.
"Ten countries, including the heads of the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
and other international organizations, also greeted me as the prime minister of the newly elected government," she said. Hasina expressed hope that more greetings would come in.