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Bangladesh's first fair vote in years comes with a daunting to-do list

A landmark election in Bangladesh ended years of disputed polls, and now the winners face pressure to tackle corruption and a battered economy.

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Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.