Bangladesh's Tarique Rahman pledges to work for democracy

DHAKA, Bangladesh: After securing an emphatic win for his Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country's future prime minister, Tarique Rahman, said he would work to build a more democratic country by overcoming challenges related to weak institutions.

Rahman's BNP won a majority in last week's election in the 350-member Parliament. An 11-member alliance led by the Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist pa