FILE PHOTO Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia waves to activists as she arrives for a rally in Dhaka January 20, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj/File Photo
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's jailed opposition leader Khaleda Zia cannot run for office in next month's election, the country's top law officer said on Wednesday, increasing the uncertainty over the party's prime ministerial candidate.
Khaleda, who has twice been the country's prime minister and shares a long-standing rivalry with the current leader Sheikh Hasina, was jailed in February after being convicted for misappropriation of funds for an orphanage.
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