{"id":48377,"date":"2018-11-02T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48377"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T11:12:26","slug":"bangladesh-pm-holds-rare-talks-with-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladesh-pm-holds-rare-talks-with-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM holds rare talks with opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48378\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sanglap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sanglap.jpg 600w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sanglap-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held rare talks with the opposition Thursday, days after its imprisoned leader was given a fresh sentence that will keep her behind bars for 10 years.<br \/>\nHasina\u2019s ruling Awami League party had earlier rejected any calls for talks with her opponents and ruled out accepting its demand for the dissolution of parliament before elections next month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an abrupt about-face, the prime minister hosted members of the opposition coalition at her Dhaka residence late on Thursday to discuss \u2014 but did not back down in her refusal to appoint a caretaker government for the polls.<br \/>\nFormer foreign minister Kamal Hossain brought a group of 20 opposition officials to the meeting, according to Awami League deputy chief Obaidul Quader.<br \/>\nHasina rejected the delegation\u2019s key demand for a caretaker government, Quader said.<br \/>\nThe visitors were \u201cnot satisfied\u201d with the talks, said opposition Bangladeshi Nationalist Party deputy chief Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks came as Hasina\u2019s chief rival, former premier Khaleda Zia, was on Tuesday handed a seven year prison term on graft charges, while another appeal court doubled her sentence for an earlier embezzlement conviction.<br \/>\nZia and Hasina have been rivals since the 1980s, when both women allied to force the country\u2019s former military dictator from power.<br \/>\nThe duo alternated power for two decades until Zia boycotted national polls in 2014, sparking violence across the Muslim-majority democracy of 160 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zia\u2019s is the only inmate in an otherwise abandoned 19th-century jail and her health has deteriorated in custody. Her physician said she was suffering from diabetes and that arthritis had rendered her left hand useless.<br \/>\nLawyers for Zia have accused the government of putting her health at risk by refusing her specialized care in prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladesh-pm-holds-rare-talks-with-opposition\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held rare talks with the opposition Thursday, days after its imprisoned leader was given a fresh sentence that will keep her behind bars for 10 years. 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