The U.S. and India should extend their partnership on a globalbasis to all parts of the world and in some areas to accentuatewhat we can do together, including defense and industrial trade,military cooperation, counterterrorism cooperation, and the civilnuclear agreement.
Sheikh Hasina Wazed, byname Sheikh Hasina, Wazed also spelled Wajed, (born September 28, 1947, Tungipara, East Pakistan [now in Bangladesh]), Bengali politician and leader of the Awami League political party, who twice served as prime minister of Bangladesh (1996–2001; 2009– ).
Hasina was the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the principal orchestrator of Bangladesh’s separation from Pakistan in 1971. In 1968 she married M.A. Wazed Miah, an eminent Bengali scientist. While at the University of Dhaka in the late 1960s, she was active in politics and served as her father’s political liaison during his imprisonment by the Pakistani government. Hasina