Bangla PM, opposition to talk in bid to defuse crisis

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 26 Oktober 2013 | 21.50

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina plans to speak by telephone to opposition leader Khaleda Zia later on Saturday to try to defuse a crisis over forthcoming elections, an aide to the premier said.

"Both the leaders will talk" by telephone, Hasina's aide Mahbubul Haque Shakil told AFP while Zia's spokesman, Maruf Kamal Khan, confirmed the planned conversation.

Tensions rose in Bangladesh on Friday after supporters of Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Islamist allies clashed with the ruling party and police in cities and towns across the nation, leaving at least seven people dead and hundreds injured.

Zia has demanded Hasina make way for a caretaker government to oversee general elections due in January.

On Friday, she announced a three-day nationwide opposition-led shutdown, starting Sunday, if Hasina did not agree to talks.

Zia's spokesman said the two leaders would discuss Zia's demand for holding the parliamentary elections under a neutral technocrat-led government.

"She (Khaleda Zia) is eager to talk. The whole nation wants them to talk to end this stalemate over the elections," Khan told AFP.

Bangladesh's politics have been held hostage for two decades by bitter rivalry between Hasina and Zia, who has served twice as premier.


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