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Former President Abdul Hamid left Bangladesh for Thailand in the wee hours last week, becoming the latest Awami League leader to slip out of the country after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime.
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Dhaka: Bangladesh's former President Abdul Hamid left the country nine months after the Awami League government was toppled in a student uprising. He left the country on a Thai Airways flight at 3 ...
Thus fell Abdul Hamid, the twenty-fourth Sultan of the House of Osman, and, by a strange coincidence, he was dethroned by the very force which he had used to smash the Constitution.
Abdul Hamid's wife and his brother-in-law have also left the country with him. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India after the student-led uprising on August 5 last year.
Abdul Hamid was sworn in as the country's 20th President on 24 April 2013. Ex-President Abdul Hamid, Sheikh Hasina among 124 sued in Kishoreganj He began his second term as the 21st President on ...