Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed sacked or transferred 27 senior bureaucrats on his first day as head of an interim government after opposition parties set him a deadline to prove his neutrality."The president has begun to act toward fulfilling the demands," a senior government official said on Tuesday. Iajuddin was sworn in on Sunday evening as chief adviser of the caretaker authority to supervise January elections in the impoverished South Asian country of 140 million. But the main opposition party, the Awami League, and its allies have asked him to demonstrate by November 3 that he is neutral and can be trusted for the job. The caretaker authority replaced Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, whose five-year mandate ended last Friday....
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