DHAKA, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Bangladesh's president dissolved parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for an interim government and fresh elections, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled following a violent crackdown on a student-led uprising.
Bangladesh president dissolves parliament, releases ex-PM Zia
President Mohammed Shahabuddin's office also announced that opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Begum Khaleda Zia, a former prime minister who had a decades-long feud with Hasina, has been freed from house arrest.
Student protesters threatened more demonstrations if parliament was not dissolved.
The movement that toppled Hasina emerged from protests against the imposition of quotas on public sector jobs for families of veterans of Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence. Critics saw this as a way to reserve jobs for allies of the ruling party.
