Ershad


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Ershad

(ˈɜːʃæd)
n
(Biography) Hussain Mohammed. born 1930, Bangladeshi soldier and statesman. He seized power in a coup in 1982, becoming president in 1983. He was deposed in 1990 and has served prison sentences for corruption
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Jatiya Party will arrange 'Chehlam' and doa mehfils at 17 places here to seek eternal peace for departed soul of former President and founding chairman of the party Hussein Muhammad Ershad on Saturday, reports BSS.
MIRPUR (AJK) -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter Friday expressed its grave concern over the ongoing siege, information blockade and India's state-sponsored repression against innocent and defenseless civilians in occupied Kashmir said party's central Secretary Information Sardar Ershad Mahmud.
'It is appropriate time to raise Kashmir issue at the all international forums as India deployed tens of thousands of troops to contain public anger, restricting the movement of people and cutting landlines, mobile phones and the internet', the party's Central Secretary Information Ershad Mahmud said when contacted by reporter on Wednesday.
The writer states in the third paragraph, 'The Saarc Charter - the brainchild of Bangladesh President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who passed away recently - was signed in Dhaka on Dec.
Preliminary investigation on the criminal case of Aghayev Ilgar Ershad, Ibrahimov Sahil Farhad, Mammadov Namig Natig for financing terrorism has finished, APA reports.
MIRPUR: Veteran Kashmiri journalist, intellectual, columnist, analyst and peace activist Ershad Mahmud in new Central Information Secretary of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Jammu and Kashmir (PTI AJK).
We in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), representing some 350 ruling, opposition, and independent political parties in 52 countries in Asia, and the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace (IAPP) join the family and the people of Bangladesh in mourning the passing last week of one of the great leaders of Bangladesh and South Asia, our friend, the soldier-statesman former President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. He was 89 years old.
Led by Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry as President, the PTI AJK will be comprising Ch Zafar Anwar (Senior Vice President), Ch Azhar Sadiq (Vice President), Raja Khurshid Ahmed (Vice President), Raja Mussaddiq Khan (General Secretary), Raja Mansoor Khan (Additional General Secretary), Sardar Qazi Israel (Deputy General Secretary of Muzaffarabad Division), Sikandar Baig (Deputy General Secretary of Mirpur Division), Sardar Murtaza Tahir (Deputy General Secretary of Poonch Division), Ch Maqbool (Deputy General Secretary of Jammu Division), Salman Butt (Deputy General Secretary of Muzaffarabad Division), Zulfiqar Abbasi (Finance Secretary), and Sardar Ershad Mahmud (Information Secretary).
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan extended condolences on the sad demise of former President of Bangladesh and Chairman of Jatiya Party General Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
Former Bangladesh military dictator Hussain Muhamed Ershad died yesterday aged 89, after weeks in a Dhaka hospital, officials said.
Dhaka : Bangladesh's former military ruler and President Hussain Muhammad Ershad passed away Sunday morning at Dhaka's Combined Military Hospital, state media announced.
Summary: New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): Former Bangladesh President Hussain Muhammad Ershad passed away on Sunday, aged 89, after weeks in a Dhaka hospital.