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Bangladeshi opposition expels two U.S.-based leaders

Xinhua, January 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh's ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled two of its U.S.-based leaders for faking a statement.

A BNP official in Dhaka told Xinhua on Wednesday that U.S.- based Zahid Sardar and Mojibor Rahman,special advisers to BNP, were expelled from the party in the wake of the fraudulence.

UK's IBTimes last week ran the fraudulent statement sent to it by a BNP leader.

The fake statement said U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and six congressmen have condemned the confinement of Khaleda Zia.

IBTimes later withdrew its report as the House Committee issued a statement saying neither the committee nor the Congress members issued any such statement on Bangladesh politics. Endi