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Begum Khaleda Zia

Khaleda Zia: The widow of the first Bangladeshi military dictator General ZiaurRahman and the prime minister of Bangladesh. Born of a Muhajeer(immigrant)

family in India, Khaledas' family first settled down in Dinajpur where her fatherran a shanty tea stall. A country girl with fairer complexion and nuggetty structure

Khaleda's fortune soared following her marriage to Ziaur Rahman (Kamal) a youngofficer of Pakistani army who had the similarMuhajeerbackground. She got even

luckier following her husband's death who she left during the liberation war againstthe Pakistani occupation army and stayed with Brigadier Aslam, her paramour.

All her life Khaleda was loyal to the senior Pakistani officers and being a

prime minister sent official condolences, breaking all protocol, to General

Janjua when he died, an ISI boss who was behind the killing of Bangalees

during the liberation war.Being twice prime minister of Bangladesh she reaped

immense riches for the members of her family who her husband left with a brokensuitcase when he was assassinated by the pro-liberation army officers due to his

pro-Pakistani stance. Now Khaleda's son is the richest young man of Bangladeshwho owns big real estates in the middle East, Malaysia and in the the Gold Coast

of Australia.Education: Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of BNP, twice prime minister, attended

school and dropped out at eighth grade.

Khaleda's dates of birth: Khaleda is an extra ordinary women because she has

five official dates of birth.1. 5 August, 1944 (Marriage certificate)

2. 5 Sept, 1946 (transcript submitted to SAARC Secretariat)3. 19 August, 1947 (record of prime ministerial oath)

4. 15 August 1947 (press secretary)5. 15 August, 1946 (application form, electoral candidacy).

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It appears from the media reports that Begum Zia had mentioned 5th Sept. and then 19th Augustas her birthday in her school and in her bio-data during elections in 1991 respectively.

Obviously, none of these dates can be confused with the 15th August!

Sometimes people use to change their birthday in order to facilitate their entry into government

service for which there is a fixed age limit, but in Begum Zia's case no such compulsion was

there.

Now the valid question is what made a sensible person like her to change the birth date to 15thAug. Is it to belittle the tragic day on which the father of the nation Sheikh Mujib and his family

were most brutally killed? We cannot find any rational explanation of this quite irrational

behaviour.

This appears to be a kind of endorsement of the heinous crimes committed on that very day!

What a pity!

Khaleda Zia was born to Iskandar Majumder and Taiyaba Majumder atDinajpur

Districton the 15th August, 1945 (the other dates of birth Khaleda Zia used in the

past were August 5, 1944Marriage certificate; September 5, 1946transcript;

August 19, 1947record of prime ministerial oath; August 15, 1947press

secretary; August 15, 1946 application formelectoral candidacy. She started

celebrating 15th August as her birthday after she lost power toSheikh Hasinain1996 election. The critics say she deliberately chose this date just to hurt her

opponent since it is a great day of mourning for Hasina when most of her family

members were brutally murdered by some members of Bangladesh Army).

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