Bangladesh targets ex-PM Hasina's Awami League ahead of polls

Islamists gain as Dhaka moves to block former ruling party from 2025 elections

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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took over Bangladesh's caretaker government after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)

FAISAL MAHMUD, Contributing writer

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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