Khaleda Zia

Begum Khaleda Zia (; (15 August 1946 – 30 December 2025) was Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, and also from 2001 to 2006. She was the first woman Prime Minister in Bangladesh. Zia is the widow of assassinated President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rehman. She lead the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from 1984 until her death in 2025. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister in the Muslim world after Benazir Bhutto.

On 23 November 2025, Zia was hospitalised in "very critical" condition and was taken to a hospital in Dhaka. On 30 December 2025, Zia died from a long-illness.

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