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Govt reinstates Ziaur Rahman’s Swadhinata Padak • May 11, 2025, 11:05 PM ET (Daily Star)

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Born January 19, 1936 • India
Died August 30, 1981 (aged 45) • Chittagong • India
Title / Office president (1977-1981), Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina Wazed
Sheikh Hasina Wazed
prime minister of Bangladesh
Mujibur Rahman
president of Bangladesh
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
The first woman prime minister of Bangladesh
Khaleda Zia
prime minister of Bangladesh
Iajuddin Ahmed
president of Bangladesh
Nand Kumar
Bengali official
Ḥusayn Shah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn
Bengali sultan