Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister and leader of The Awami League party Sheikh Hasina Wajed is pictured at her residence in Dhaka. Sheikh Hasina won the country's first election since 2001 in a landslide Tuesday, crushing her bitter rival to retake power in the impoverished south Asian nation. (AFP/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)From Yahoo News/AFP:
DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh's former premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed won the country's first election since 2001 in a landslide Tuesday, but her bitter rival rejected the result saying the polls had been "stage-managed".
Khaleda Zia's rejection of the outcome early Wednesday threatened to throw the impoverished South Asian nation into fresh political uncertainty after two years of rule by an army-backed caretaker government.
The election commission said Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party had won 231 of the 297 seats in parliament counted so far, giving her an overwhelming win in Monday's vote with just a few results still to be tallied.
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