Shahabuddin said he plans to step down after the February parliamentary election, calling the past few months a time when he was ignored and treated with disrespect.

Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin has said he wants to step down before his term ends, soon after the country’s parliamentary election in February. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, he said he feels “humiliated” and pushed aside by the interim government now being run by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

Shahabuddin, 75, is officially the commander-in-chief of the military, but the president’s post is mostly symbolic in the country of 173 million people. Real power stays with the prime minister and the cabinet. His position became more important last year when a student-led uprising forced former prime min

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