Nepal, May 23 -- Bangladesh has been in political turmoil since a student-led revolt forced then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee last year, ending her 15-year iron-fisted rule.



Rival parties have repeatedly brought the streets of the capital Dhaka to a standstill with a string of competing demands.



Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who leads the caretaker government as its chief advisor until elections, was reported to have threatened to quit this week if political parties did not give him their full support.



Political parties and power brokers in the Muslim-majority nation of some 170 million people range from student activists, Islamist politicians to the army.



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