Khaleda Zia Twice Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, was born on 15 August 1945.
She was the third among the five children of her parents. She passed her Matriculation Examination from Dinajpur Government School and got admitted to Surendranath College, Dinajpur. She was married in August 1960 to Ziaur Rahman, then a Captain in the Pakistan Army who proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and later became the President of the Republic in 1977
It was the tragic death of her husband President Ziaur Rahman in May 1981, that changed her entire life-pattern and brought her into the mainstream of national politics, and eventually to the seat of power. Power, however, did not come automatically to Begum Khaleda Zia. She had to earn it at an immense cost and personal sacrifices. She encountered personal tragedies in the assassination of her husband, courted arrests eight times in nine years and had to continually undergo harassment and repression at the hands of the autocratic regime. But nothing could deter her from her mission of freeing the nation from autocratic rule and re-establishing a democratic polity in the country