DHAKA -- Bangladesh's caretaker government is moving to block deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League from elections eyed for next year, in its boldest move yet to scrap remnants of her iron-fisted regime.
The unprecedented plan comes as a political vacuum gives sidelined Islamist parties a new lease on life, raising eyebrows in the U.S. and India, where Hasina took refuge after a violent uprising ended her 15-year rule in August.
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