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The Bangladeshi politician and former prime minister Khaleda Zia has died aged 80.
She was the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and she held the post of prime minister twice, starting in 1991 for five years and then again from 2001 for another five years.
The party said she died after a prolonged illness.
Jill McGivering looks back on her life.
Khalida Zia had a dramatic political life.
Her long, bitter feud with arch-rival Sheikh Hasina polarised Bangladeshi politics for decades and undermined any chance of much-needed consensus.
She said she was just a shy housewife when her husband, Zia-ur-Rahman, a hero of the country's struggle for independence, became president in the 1970s.
When he was assassinated, she entered politics herself.
As the head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, she became a powerful figure in the fight against military rule and was jailed many times.
When elections were finally held in 1991, she became Prime Minister and served a second term in office the following decade.
but her lifelong inability to work with Sheikh Hasina, the other dominant figure in the country's political landscape, often caused deadlock, even violence.
The crisis in 2006 was a classic example.
In the run-up to national elections, Sheikh Hasina, then in opposition, called a series of strikes and protests because she felt the election rules favoured her opponent Khalida Zia.
Khalida Zia responded by urging her supporters to use violence and fight back.
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