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Khaleda Zia sworn in as PM

BY Our Special Correspondent

DHAKA, OCT. 10. The four-party alliance which got a landslide victory in the October 1 election has formed its Government in Bangladesh with Begum Khaleda Zia as the 11th Prime Minister of the country. Begum Zia, the chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has formed a 60-member Council of Ministers in which two fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have been inducted.

The swearing-in of the new Prime Minister and the members of the Council of Ministers was conducted by the President, Mr. Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed, at a ceremony held at Bangababan here this evening.

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