{"id":209243,"date":"2026-02-06T23:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209243"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:24:12","slug":"khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209243","title":{"rendered":"Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of Hasina, dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Bangladesh AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country\u2019s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said in a statement Tuesday. She was 80. Zia was the first woman elected prime minister of Bangladesh&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Bangladesh AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80.jpg",2560,1440,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-2048x1152.jpg",2048,1152,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209243-khaleda-zia-former-bangladeshi-prime-minister-and-archrival-of-hasina-dies-at-80-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}