 Time, a prestigious American news magazine, has rated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as the 7th among 12 top world women leaders across the world. The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, topped the list followed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Argentine President Cristina Fernández. The other nine leaders are Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland, Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica, Tarja Halonen, President of Finland, Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.About the Bangladesh Prime Minister, the magazine wrote: “Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the 63-year-old leader of the left-of-center Awami League, has a history of surviving. During a 1975 coup d’état, assassins killed 17 members of her family —including three brothers, mother and father, then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “Hasina, then 28, happened to be abroad at the time. She later survived a grenade attack that killed more than 20 people, dodging the bullets that sprayed her car as she fled,” it stated. Time also said, “Hasina was first elected Prime Minister in 1996. But in 2001, Transparency International named Bangladesh as the most corrupt country in the world, and Hasina was ousted in a landslide.” “That wasn’t the end of her, though. In January 2009, the Awami League won 230 of 299 parliamentary seats, and the consummate survivor found herself Prime Minister —again,” it added. |
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