Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia late Monday offered to meet her main opposition rivals for talks in a bid to end a political standoff that has hobbled the country's parliament since 2001, according to DPA. In a nationwide address broadcast on radio and television, Zia promised to consider any electoral reform programme put forward by the opposition Awami League and its allies. Monday's address marked four years in power for Zia's Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and its main coalition partner, the fundamentalist Jamaat-I-Islami. The government has one year left to run
