Bengali military leader and statesman Hussain Mohammad Ershad (born 1930) was chief of staff of the Bangladesh army and served as president of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990. A meeting of opposites, a combination of calculated indifference, humanistic...

(b. 1930), President of Bangladesh. Born in the Rangpur District of modern-day Bangladesh, Hussain Muhammad Ershad became a career officer in the Pakistan army, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1971. Stationed in Pakistan when Bangladesh and...

Hossain Mohammad Ershad (Bengali: হুসেইন মুহাম্মাদ এরশাদ Husein Muhammad Ershad) (b. February 1, 1930) is a Bangladeshi politician who previously served as army chief of staff (1978-82) and president of Bangladesh...

THERE was no fuss. On the morning of December 12th a police officer knocked on the door of Mr Hussain Mohammad Ershad's house in Dhaka's garrison district and told him that he was under arrest. The former president and his wife were taken...

OF THE generals and ex-generals who rule large areas of Asia, President Mohammad Ershad of Bangladesh has done least well. General Zia ul Haq presides beamingly over Pakistan ten years after taking power. General Prem Tinsulanond has run Thailand with little trouble for...