Zia defers meeting with Hasina, Bangladesh faces shutdown

October 26, 2013 21:19

BNP chief Khaleda Zia today turned down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's invitation for talks to defuse a crisis over the upcoming general election, but said she was open to a dialogue after an opposition-sponsored 60-hour nationwide shutdown.

Hasina and Zia spoke on the phone this evening -- believed to be their first conversation in at least a decade -- to explore possibilities of a dialogue after failed attempts by the prime minister to talk to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief earlier in the day.

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